other – N Ireland

Between The Bridges

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Landmarks of Enniskillen and Lough Erne are depicted in this “Enniskillen” mural by Danni Simpson (ig) and Karl Fenz (ig) for Experience Enniskillen (web).

Clockwise from the peaked roofs in the bottom left: Lough Erne resort, Enniskillen courthouse, Cole’s Monument, the Cuilcagh Boardwalk (which is featured in Stairway To Heaven), Enniskillen town hall, the bandstand at Cole’s Monument, the Butter Market, Enniskillen Castle, the red heart “selfie frame” in the Broadmeadow (Impartial Reporter), with Marble Arch Caves and fishing on Lough Erne (see also Pike Fishing In Enniskillen) at the bottom.

The piece is in East Street Bridge, on the side wall of Fermanagh Cottage Industries in front of the Presbyterian Church.

Also by the same pair in Cavehill, Belfast: Fowl Play (Swan) | Outfoxed | Squirrelled Away.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024 Paddy Duffy
T04342c T04343cr T04341

Léım An Mhadaıdh

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a selection of street art in Limavady/Léım An Mhadaıdh/”Leap of the dog” including, above, a leaping dog by London artist irony (ig).

Below, in order, are a pangram illustration by KVLR (ig), musicians by Claire Prouvost (ig), a jazz band by Matthew Knight (ig), a goat by Visual Waste (ig) for the Stendhal Festival (web), and a mental health piece by Peaball (ig).

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024 Paddy Duffy
T04256 [T04255]
T04250 [T04251] [T04252]
T04254 T04253c
T04257
T04248 [T04249]
T04246 T04247c

The Jingler

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Downshire Bridge over “The Cut” through the centre of Banbridge town (created in 1834; here is a NLI image from the 1900s), is locally known as “Jingler’s Bridge” on account of one or more of the sellers on the bridge jingling their coins (Geograph), perhaps among them this apple-seller, painted by Friz (ig) on the northern side of The Cut/Bridge Street.

Downshire Bridge is perhaps named for the 3rd (Arthur Hill) or 4th (Arthur Wills Hill) Marquess Of Downshire (Lord Belmont).

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024 Paddy Duffy
T04119 [T04117] [T04118]

The Last Viking

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Magnús Óláfsson – Magnus Barelegs – was king of Norway from 1093 to 1103 and raided settlements in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the isle of Man, and Sweden. During a second campaign around the Irish Sea he was killed somewhere near the River Quoile, which flows through Downpatrick, and was buried close to St Patrick’s church. (WP) The Magnus Viking Association (Fb) hosts an annual Magnus Viking festival.

The mural is by friz (web) in Church Street, Downpatrick.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Paddy Duffy
T02230 [T02229] Down Community Arts Downpatrick Town Committee Newry Mourne and Down District Council Down News

Arrivals

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here are two final pieces from the street-art make-over of Banbridge in 2022. Below is Holly Pereira (web)’s “Welcome To Banbridge” in Newry Street; above and immediately below is Decoy (web)’s piece in Downshire Place depicting how the town grew up around a coach stop at the eponymous “Bann bridge” on the route from Belfast to Dublin (ABC borough council). According to Connolly (Google Books) and History Ireland, a short-lived coach service c. 1740 from Dublin to Belfast stopped in Drogheda and Newry; permanent service did not begin until 1788. According to the Downshire Arms (web), a Georgian coaching inn built in 1816, Banbridge was the second stop along the route from Belfast.

The other paintings in the 2022 ‘Arrivals’ project, organised by Daisy Chain and the Council, are by Friz (The Jingler), FGB (Ernest Walton), and Rob Hilken (Damask For Dignity).

For a list of other borough council projects, see Visual History 11 on the rise of street art.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024 Paddy Duffy
T04040c T04039
T04043 [T04044]

Disintegration

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Ernest Walton was born in 1903 in Co. Waterford, graduated from TCD, and then worked in the Cavendish lab in Cambridge, England, and then at TCD. He and John Cockroft were together awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1932 work at Cavendish that split apart the nucleus (specifically, of a lithium atom), verifying Rutherford’s conjectures about the structure of atoms (WP). He died in Belfast in 1995.

His connection to Banbridge, which is where this FGB (ig) mural can be found on Bridge St, is that he attended kindergarten in the town (DIB).

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024 Paddy Duffy
T04037 T04038

Damask For Dignity

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This is a Rob Hilken (web) piece in Linenhall Street, Banbridge, and in connection with the location and the linen tradition of Banbridge, the piece features a chrysanthemum pattern (visible at Lisburn Museum) from one of the 1,600 glass plates found at the Ewart-Liddell weaving factory in Donacloney when it was dismantled in 2007 (Lisburn Museum), as well as holes from a Jacquard loom punch-card (Science & Industry Museum). (ig)

Commissioned by Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council (web), with support from Daisy Chain (web).

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024 Paddy Duffy
T04041c T04042

In Crumlin They Paint On Main Street

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here are the painted shutters of ten different businesses along Main Street in Crumlin, Co. Antrim. The Crumlin Youth mural is on Glenavy Road – it is presumably by Blaze FX (Fb) who also did the interlocking rings for Stylus Engraving.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024 Paddy Duffy
T03810 [T03811] [T03812] T03813 T03814 T03815 T03816 T03817 [T03818] T03819 T03820 T03821 T03822 T03823 T03824 [T03825]

Botanical Borough

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here are the pieces painted for the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council’s ‘Botanical Borough’ project (BelTel), co-orindated by Daisy Chain (web). There are seven pieces by Hixxy (ig), one of a flower chosen by each of the seven different electoral areas of the Borough, in the towns of Randalstown, Antrim, Crumlin, Ballyclare, Whiteabbey, Monkstown, and Glengormley, with an additional piece in four of the towns by other aritsts.

Above is a flax flower by Hixxy in John St, Randalstown. Immediately below are bluebells by Hixxy and Andy Council at the library in Railway St, Antrim. The others follow.

Wild Roses by Hixxy and Woskerski on Main St, Crumlin

Flax flowers by Hixxy and Holly Pereira (with horses) in Ballyclare

Cherry Blossom by Hixxy next to the Six Three One Cafe in Whiteabbey

Flax by Hixxy at The Butchers & Deli in Monkstown

Forget-Me-Nots by both Hixxy, at the Lilian Bland Community Park, and Kitsune, on the Antrim Rd, Glengormley

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Paddy Duffy
T03711 [T03712] [T03713]
T03717 [T03716]
T03715 [T03714]
T03730
T03733 [T03731]
T03732
T03684 [T03685]
T03683 [T03681]
T03682c
T03672
T03688
T03692 [T03693]
T03600 [T03601] [T03602]