This vintage car was painted by Visual Waste (ig) for Storm Xccessories (web) in Garvagh Road, Swartagh
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The Fox And The Hare
This fox hunting a hare is by Peaball (web) on a wall at Foxes (web) in Dunadry. On another wall around the corner is a fox in the bluebells.
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Twist The Sinews Of Thy Heart
Here is another gallery of the frequently-refreshed Project24 space on Queen’s Parade, Bangor, with new work by Keyto (ig), Féoil (ig) and others.
Previous galleries:
2025-06 Love All Round Ye
2025-04 Shrunken Heads
2024-11 Zoom!
2024-04 How About This For Art?
2023-11 Stop Ruining Art
2023-04 Around Every Corner
2023-01 This Is Not The Same As Every Day
The final two images are from the front of the road, from Thick As Thieves Streetwear.
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The Teal Forest
The Eye Of Providence
The Society Of United Irishmen – who hoped for French support for a rebellion in Ireland – could not meet openly while France and Britain were at war. In Belfast, meetings were held at Dr [Benjamin] Franklin’s tavern in Sugarhouse Entry, also called “Peggy Barclay’s” after its owner, under the guise of a social group called the Muddlers’ Club.
There is today a restaurant called The Muddlers’ Club, named after the society, in Warehouse Lane. The piece above shows a skull, a scythe, a pair of wings, and the Square & Compasses of the Freemasons (with a “G” for “God” or “geometry”). The second piece includes a skull, an eight-pointed star/compass, and an Eye Of Horus (familiar from Freemasons, the 1 dollar bill in US currency, and the Illuminati).
The piece on the left was painted by Visual Waste (web) in June, 2017; the one on the right was added later.
Two earlier pieces with similar imagery on the other side of the entry disappeared with the wall they were painted on: see God Approves Our Undertakings and The Wider Conspiracy.
See also the Visual History page on the Belfast Entries.
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The Morning Star
The Morning Star (web) is a bar in Pottinger’s Entry that dates back – as a coach halt – all the way to 1810. (For a full history, see Lord Belmont.) This new mural, by Graffic Belfast (ig), features Guinness toucans flying over a variety of local landmarks.
See also: the Visual History page on the Belfast Entries.
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Radiate Positivity
Armagh won the All-Ireland Senior football championship in 2024, with a squad that included three players from Crossmaglen: Oısín O’Neill, Cıan McConville, and Rían O’Neill.
In the bottom-left corner, players from Crossmaglen Rangers turn to face the Irish tricolour, flanked by the club flag and the flag of Palestine – the flags fly below the watchtower of a British Army barracks (perhaps based on an image from the 2005 Armagh final – Irish Times).
On the right is an umbrella in pride colours, below which people can pose and take pictures: “Snap & tag us”.
This is a revised version of the mural, which originally (ig) bore the Ernesto Cardenal quote, “They tried to bury you/us but they didn’t know you/we were seeds”.
On the side of KIS pizza- and coffee-shop, The Square, Crossmaglen. “The community wall” @kis_pizza_coffee @careforcaolan” [Caolan Finnegan, who died in August, 2024] @Nıamh_Ní_Dhalaıgh_Art July 2024″
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The Grape That Brings Relief From Cares
Ballymena Town Hall
Here are two shutter paintings of bygone Ballymena: above is Ballymena Town Hall, which has been rebuilt on multiple occasions; pictured above are the hall in its present form, since 1918, and its previous incarnation.
Below is the view looking up Bridge Street, with the old town hall in the middle.
Both of these are on shutters in the modern Bridge Street. tThere are also shutters painted with Mill St, Ballymena.
The owl is in Church Street while the butterfly and nature pair are in Broughshane Street (at Blossom & Birch and The Venue).
The two commercial pieces (final two images, below) are by Sam McAleese for Ballymena BID (LoveBelfast). (For others, see Midtown Makers.)
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Lady Danger
This is work by Ona Salvador (ig) on the shutters of Skull And Bones Tattoo Society (web) in North Street, replacing the sign for the tattoo convention (see Inkology). Salvador also did a piece in Union Street for HTN25.
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