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Inıs Ceıthleann

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The town of Enniskillen – “Inıs Ceıthleann” in Irish – is named, according to a (modern) myth, for the (ancient) Cethlenn of the Fomorians, who attempted to escape a battle by swimming the Erne and made it to the island in the middle.

This street-art interpretation is by emic (web) on the back of Magee’s Bar on East Bridge Street, Enniskillen. It is perhaps inspired by the epithet “chraos-fhıaclach” or “gap-toothed”.

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Send In The Clowns

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Here are some painted junction boxes in CNR west Belfast:

– a creepy jester on Grosvenor Road (for the memorial garden in the background, see A Democratic Secular Socialist Republic.)

– an ape on Broadway, by Kate Whiteman (web)

– “GRMA” [“go raıbh maıth agat”] on Rockdale Street

– a faded appreciation of “Our heroes” in Ballymurphy Road (seen in 2022 in better shape)

For an index of boxes in CNR west Belfast, see Respect Our Community.

For the whole city, see the Visual History page on painted utility boxes.

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Twist The Sinews Of Thy Heart

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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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Under The Cherry Blossoms

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Work to the windows has been undertaken since this art was originally painted (in 2023) by Friz (web) and Gerry Norman (ig); two windows have been bricked up with multi-coloured bricks (best seen in the image immediately below), while others have been extended and narrowed, resulting in patches of black bricks (see the third and fourth images).

The piece is inspired by the seventeenth-century Belfast Castle. Castle Arcade is so-called because it is the site the original castle of Belfast, built by the Normans in the late 12th century and then rebuilt by Arthur Chichester in 1611. Chichester’s castle had “spacious gardens which extended from the river along to Cromac Woods and near Stranmillis” with “orchards, bowling greens and cherry gardens … fish ponds,” for “hunting, hawking, and other sports”. It was destroyed by fire in 1708, after which the area became commercialised as a market (ArchiSeek | Mary Lowry | BBC | Belfast Entries).

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