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Welcome To the Bellevue

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The beer garden at the Bellevue Arms got a facelift in the summer (of 2024), including new a name-sign in the style of the “Greetings from …” postcards in the US, which would feature local landmarks within the letters of the place-name. (Here is a history from Smithsonian magazine.)

Within the letters of “BELLEVUE” we can see a Delorean, one of the H&W cranes, the Albert Clock, the Rise sculpture (the Balls On The Falls), the Titanic museum, Belfast City Hall, the Big Fish, the Beacon Of Hope sculpture (Nuala With The Hula).

The seating areas have also been decorated with paintings of flowers.

Antrim Road, Glengormley. Perhaps by Visual Waste (web).

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Deadly Pints, Deadly Tunes

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“Deadly” here means “excellent” or “terrific”, perhaps from the idea of “hitting the (living!) target” (Stack) – it is a piece of southern slang that artist and print-maker Leo Boyd (web) perhaps picked up on his journey from Bristol to Dublin to Belfast (Boyd | Atom) where he is one of the Vault Studios artists (Vault).

Below the windows are “Ar scáth a chéıle a mhaıreann na daoıne” and “More Blacks, more dogs, more Irish.”

The new work shown here is at the American Bar (web) in Sailortown.

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Ársa Ach Ór

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The Power’s whiskey (web) slogan “Old but gold” has here been translated into Irish as “ársa ach ór” and the red diamond from the ‘gold label’ is now agitating for “An Dream Dhearg [web] – #AchtAnoıs #CeartaTeanga” [The Red Group – #BillNow #LanguageRights].

There is also (below) a new tribute to Rónán Mac Aodha Bhuí, similar to the one at An Chultúrlann – for which, see Dorn San Aer.

At Tí Mhadáın/Madden’s Bar in Berry Street, Belfast city centre

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Inkology

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The Belfast Tattoo Convention will take place on June 15th and 16th in the Europa Hotel (BelTel). So, here are pieces from two tattoo parlours in town – above, playing cards with death, on the shutters of Joker tattoo in North Street, and below, White Dragon on Botanic Avenue – as well as an ad for the convention of the shutters of Skull And Bones in North Street.

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Let’s Put A Smile On That Face

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This is a piece of commercial street art painted at the corner of Marlborough Avenue and Lisburn Road on the wall of the Juice Jar (ig) by Visual Waste (ig). It uses the character of ‘the joker’ as played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008); his catch-phrase “Why so serious?” has become “Why so juicy?”

See previously: the joker and catwoman in the city centre.

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