This idyllic scene of smartly-dressed professionals and joyful families is on a hoarding in front of some waste ground in Lisburn town centre. Previously (prior to 2019), the hoarding showed shop windows and street-lights.
Smithfield Street, Lisburn
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This is a pair of small paintings at the Raven Social club in east Belfast. Above, a silhouette of David Ervine – see An Architect Of Peace. A lounge in the club is named after Ervine. And below, a small version of a mural in Londonderry, depicting the interaction between John Meeke of the 36th (Ulster) Division and Willie Redmond of the 16th (Irish) Division on Messines Ridge in 1917 – see Comrades In Arms. 1st Raven Somme Association holds an annual Battle Of Messines Parade (Raven Fb).
Previously from the Raven club: Quoth The Raven, “Evermore”.
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“Keep CQ tidy”. Here are two tidiness-related pieces in the Cathedral Quarter: above and immediately below, Karl Fenz (web) uses the catchphrase “ya filthy animals” from the films Home Alone and Home Alone 2, and (last below), “I’ve got 99 problems but a bin ain’t one”, though the stencil is on a junction box and not on a bin. A 99 is an ice-cream cone with a (half) flake, perhaps purchased from Mackle’s (web) in Hill Street.
Marcus Keeley (on instagram) took a walk around the area and made a map showing bins on the street bordering the area but none in its middle. Business-owners in the area asked for more bins in May (Belfast Telegraph Fb reel). The bin in front of McCauley Culkin’s Kevin McCallister is newly placed (CQ Belfast’s ig).
Hill Street and Commercial Court, Belfast city centre
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‘Step Up For Change’ was a two-year “youth development” programme that “graduated” fifteen young people from east Belfast in July, 2026 (Phoenix Education | International Fund for Ireland).
Greenore Street, Willowfield, east Belfast, replacing The Legends and My Anchor Holds.
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The sills and inset windows are real, and the frames and shadows were painted by Woskerski (web) to heighten the 3-D effect around the animals sitting in the windows: two cats eye up a robin and some swifts.
On the side of Age Care, at the Thomas Street end of Feeney’s Lane, Dungannon
Also by Woskerski: faces in Belfast | asteroid in Crumlin | flamingo in Ballymena | writing in Belfast
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This celebration of the Northern Ireland soccer team is in Cookstown. On the left are the emblem of three world cups. Prior to its twice-in-a-row appearances at the World Cups in Spain (1982) and Mexico (1986), Northern Ireland’s only other appearance was in Sweden (1958), where it reached the quarter-finals.
The three players in the centre – Ray McCoy, Stuart Dallas, and Aaron Hughes – are all Cookstown locals. McCoy made one appearance for the NI team, Dallas 62, and Hughes 112.
Milburn Park, Cookstown
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This Young Newton (the UYM in east Belfast) mural is an extension to the left-hand end of the fiftieth anniversary repainting of “Freedom Corner” (final image) and next to the Young Newton memorial garden (penultimate image).
The group has had a presence on the area’s walls since 1997. See also 2005 | 2009 | 2009 at the other end of Freedom Corner. (Also 1999 in Bangor.)
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“Our future, our voice”, “We are the future. Stronger together”. These messages of “equality, belonging, respect, friendship, inclusion” are aimed at youth in the New Lodge, north Belfast.
In the background (of the image below) is a mental health mural also aimed at young people – see Space To Breathe, which also shows the INLA graffiti this mural replaces.
Fortfield Place, New Lodge, north Belfast
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“There is no strength without coming together.” Cork singer and fiddler Clare Sands (web) will be in An Chultúrlann in Derry tonight (October 16th) and at the Empire in Belfast on Sunday night (18th) promoting her new album “They Tried To Bury Us” (Bandcamp).
The phrase “they tried to bury us; the didn’t know we were seeds” was briefly used in a Crossmaglen mural where it was attributed to Bobby Sands, but probably goes back to Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal in 1961.
This new mural is on the back of Madden’s bar, in Berry Street, Belfast city centre
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“Re-route Garvaghy Road. Marching back to the 19th century. No going back/Níl dul siar ann!”
NI Secretary Chris Bryant decided (on October 9th) to ban the Orange Order from marching past the Garvaghy estate (Guardian | Irish Times | Independent), though a legal challenge is being lodged by the Orange Order against it and a rally in support of the Portadown lodge is planned for the 24th (Belfast Live).
An application has been made for a November march on another contentious route, the lower Ormeau Road. Residents are monitoring the application (Belfast Media), and perhaps this mural on the International Wall (Visual History) will be re-purposed.
This mural is based on one painted during the 1997 dispute – see entry 101 in the catalogue of Mo Chara Kelly. See also: graffiti and posters about the (Garvaghy) dispute, and the Trade-Off, Stand-Off mural in lower Ormeau.
To the immediate right is the mural of Soso And Omar Ashour, and to the right of that is the mural for the Journacide documentary.
October 13th:
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