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Stairway To Heaven

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The Cuilcagh Boardwalk is a 2.8-mile trail that ends in stairs that climb to the top of Cuilcagh Mountain [Binn Chuilceach, chalky mountain] and the views it offers of the surrounding territory – hence the name “Stairway To Heaven”. The distance from boggy plain to chalky pinnacle is 700m – and eight million years of geological history (Cuilcagh Geopark). Then you walk back the same way (Walk NI).

Work by Friz (ig) in Wickham Place, Enniskillen, at the Belmore motel.

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Sea Food

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Happy sea creatures in blissful ignorance of their destinies as food. On the side of E Kou Xian (web) (lettering, top right) and the adjacent shop Hao Pin Wei (on the sailboat). Also in the street are Lee Foods and the Same Happy café. There is a QEII 70th jubilee mural on the side of the defunct Wai Kee restaurant.

Apsley Street in Donegall Pass, on the site of an old 36th Division board that went back at least to 1999.

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Downpatrick Street Art

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Here is a gallery of street art in Downpatrick, roughly from the north of the town to the south, from Church Street to Irish Street to St Patrick’s Avenue. Many of these were done for Down Time 2022.

Girl From Mars by Friz (ig) and NRMN (ig), ?RAZER? , hands by emic (ig)
in the carpark: trio of NOYS, ?Razer?, Wee Nuls; fish by Verz (ig), “When life gives you lemons” by Zippy (ig);
on St Patrick’s Avenue: Friz, Kieron Black (ig), fighting birds by ?

See previously: street art for Down Time 2019 | Magnus Barelegs.

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Belfast Romances

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This Leo Boyd (web) piece in Great Victoria Street brings together many of the ideas seen in his posters over the years, including When Urban Love Goes Wrong, Belfast Kitty Hall, DeLorean cars, Godzilla – “The monster created by atoms gone wild! Escaped from Belfast zoo”, and the wind-up police land-rover.

“Approved by DC Tours“

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All Kings Die, Some Live Forever

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The Malojian (Fb) mural (shown below) on the Oh Yeah Centre was the idea of Lyndon Stephens, founder of Quiet Arch records, and when he died in January 2020 after a long illness (Hotpress), Stevie Scullion returned the favour by organising the painting of a mural by Jonny McKerr (JMK) & Dermot McConaghy (DMC) the following November (Dig With It).

Gordon Street, Belfast city centre

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