According to the Lough Neagh fisheries collective, about 400 tonnes of eel are taken annually from the lake (Fisheries Collective | also Fb | see also DAERA 2022 management plan). If eel is not your idea of dinner, the Fisheries Visitor Centre in Toomebridge might convince you otherwise.
This new painting is by emic (web) on Main Street, Toome.
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Local landmarks from Larne and the Antrim coast on the end of Curran Court Hotel (web) between Redlands Road and Harbour Highway.
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The Auld Meetin’-Hoose Green was an 1898 collection of tales from Ballyclare and surroundings as retold by by Archibald McIlroy, who grew up in the area before moving to Belfast, Drumbo, and Canada. McIlroy died travelling on the Lusitania, when it was hit by a German submarine in 1915 (Ulster Biography | Ulster Biography). The stories have been brought to life in a podcast.
This new street art is by Zippy (ig) in Main Street, Ballyclare.
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Van Morrison was born in 1945 at 125 Hyndford Street in east Belfast and recalled the sights and sounds of his early life there in the spoken-word track ‘On Hyndford Street’ from the 1991 album Hymns To The Silence (youtube). (The song also concluded his 70th birthday concert in Cyprus Avenue – youtube).
This painted tribute is by Glen Molloy (Fb) in the alley between Abetta Parade and Hyndford Street, roughly behind 135 Hyndford Street (and close to The Hollow – see Days When The Rains Came).
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As part of Tunnel Vision paint-jam that added street art along the sides of the underpass at York Street station, a poem by Niamh McNally (ig) – Line Work – was added to the ceiling.
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In that golden hour, when timed-/Light is softened through glass/Piles of railway sleepers rest above/Sailortown’s underpass. A beacon blinks/As ghost seamen spot the shine of docklands./Indigo shadows shape form and shade pages/That are pressed in heritage of place./The last train breaks – halting about us./Our echoes dance then reverberate,/Deep within the underpass, deep within/The heart of north Belfast./Magic whispers to mystics in this piece./Artist voices converse from marginalia./Brushed, spraying, and dipping York Street …
The distinctive turrets of Killyleagh Castle were added by Charles Lanyon in the mid 1800s, when the house – parts of which go back to the 1100s – was renovated (Castles World). There is no water around the grounds but Canoe NI has maps of trails in the Strangford Lough area that go past Killyleagh.
The art is by Pigment Space/MWAK (ig) in Church Hill, Killyleagh, on the side of the ‘Great Wall’ Chinese take-away.
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The people of Kilwilkie (Lurgan) supported the Armagh team in their (successful – RTÉ video) bid to win the All-Ireland senior football championship, repeating their former and only previous win in 2002 – see also Ard Mhacha (in north Belfast) and Ádh Mór Ard Mhacha (in Armagh) and (from 2023) The Core Of Armagh.
Levin Road, Lurgan
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These community murals were painted under the auspices of the Edgarstown Residents’ Association (Fb), which hosts a Drop-In, Kids’ Club, Evolve (NI World), Smile (ArmaghI), and PCBDT (Portadown Community-Based Detached Team) (NI World | NIHE). The sub-station was painted in March, 2022 (Fb) – in the early 2000s it bore a UVF mural (see D01333); the low wall reading “Welcome To Edgarstown” is from August of this year (2024).
West Street/Margaret Street and Union Street, Edgarstown, Portadown
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These images are from Mosey’s Arch, Killyleagh, which is an entry off High Street, just below the Hans Sloane Centre (web). Sloane was born (in 1660) and raised in Killyleagh and his interest in the natural world spurred him to study botany and medicine in London (WP).
The cuneiform markings (in the image below) are a reference to Edward Hincks – born in Cork but rector in Killyleagh – who helped decipher Akkadian (Mesopotamian) cuneiform (WP).
The art – by Pigment Space/MWAK (ig), with support from Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (web) – also features the buildings in Killyleagh: above are Killyleagh Presbyterian (left) and St John The Evangelist church (right); below are mills in the area (perhaps reproducing this Fb image).
Also by MWAK and featuring the Killyleagh shore-line: The Great Wall.
(Also in Killyleagh: The Future Of Football)
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A new painting of Amelia Earhart has been created by JEKS (ig), on the side of the Foyle building, North West Regional College, on Queen’s Quay. A number of sources claim without citation or measurement that it is the tallest piece of street art in the north – both the BBC and the Chamber Of Commerce use the passive “thought to be”. Its closest competitor would be the recent piece by Zabou on the Telegraph Building in Belfast – see Broken Promises.
The Foyle Building has six “levels” (NWRC) while the original Telegraph Building had four storeys (Archiseek). In addition to comparing images of the two paintings, you can also judge by comparing Street View images of the buildings: Derry vs Belfast.
Information about Earhart’s connection to the Maiden City can be found in the entries on the printed board (But What Do Dreams Know Of Boundaries?) and the mosaic (Flying Solo) to Earhart in Derry.
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