Latharna House – the last remaining of three tower-blocks in Larne – is still standing, despite plans to demolish it in 2022 (Belfast Live) and in 2024 (NI World) and in 2025 (NI World). While awaiting its ultimate demise, it serves as a canvas for writers (including AKSEL and ANCO) and an advertising hoarding for the recent Hit The Coast festival – full gallery here.
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Each season is illustrated by a bird: spring by a wren or lark, summer by a blue tit, autumn by a magpie, and winter by a robin.
Also included (last below) are “Don’t Be A Litter-Bug” and ?batman?.
All three boxes are on Bell Steel Road, next to the shops/Bell Steel Manor.
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Kneecap were back in town opening for the Fontaines DC at Belfast Vital at the Boucher Road playing fields on Friday (BBC) (and an after-party at the Beehive) before zipping down to the Electric Picnic festival in Laois. At both concerts they were outspoken in their support for Palestinians in Gaza, as well as criticising the DUP, Alliance (Belfast Live), McDonald’s and Kemi Badenoch (Irish Examiner). In each of the past three years, the band has added to the wall at the corner of Hawthorn Street and Cavendish Street (see in order: Incendiary Device, England Get Out Of Ireland, and Kneecap’s Fine Art) and it is now full with the addition of “Free Palestine – Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people” below the chimneys.
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“In our community no one walks in the darkness alone.” West Wellbeing (web) offers counselling and suicide-prevention services from its offices in the Dairyfarm centre on the Stewartstown Road. This new mural – by Glen Molly (ig) – is a little further along the road, just past Bell Steel Road.
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In 2008 thick metal walls were added to both sides of the Finaghy railway bridge in order to prevent the possibility of a car falling onto the tracks (BelTel | BBC | Belfast Media), as had happened in Yorkshire, England, in 2001, causing ten deaths (WP). The result was a “brutalist eyesore” (Belfast Live) that was often covered in tags (there is a good picture at the top of this Belfast Media article from 2024).
The bridge been given a floral facelift by Visual Waste (web) but not everyone has the same interpretation of the new art: one local resident complained that the background was “Sınn Féın green” and that the “graffiti” would lower property values (Belfast Live).
Finaghy Road North. Also included below are painted electrical boxes by Danni Simpson (web) from 2023 at the nearby junction of the Finaghy roads and the Upper Lisburn Road.
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This is a colourful new mural painted by Cha Cha (Carla Hodgson) (ig) and local children at the Bankmore end of Maryville Street (BBC). Local landmarks (from left to right) include Nuala With The Hula (a.k.a. Beacon Of Hope), Broadcasting House, Samson and Goliath, the Albert clock, and the Big Fish, all in a garden of grass and flowers.
Maryville Street, Donegall Pass, south Belfast
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This is a giant image of Padre Pio painted by Cha Cha (Carla Hodgson) (ig) inside the Harcourt Drive gates of what is now St Columban’s – Sacred Heart Boys primary school merged with Our Lady’s Girls to form St Columban’s primary last year (2024) (Belfast Media).
The prayer on the left – “Pray, hope, and don’t worry.” – continues “Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” The Capuchin friar is wearing gloves to cover his stigmata, and he was also thought capable of being in two places at once. (WP) His feast day is September 23rd.
Harcourt Drive, north Belfast
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The Bobby Sands mural in Sevastopol Street, on the side of the Sınn Féın offices, is perhaps Belfast’s most famous mural and in general second only to Free Derry Corner in Derry. The main wall of the mural has just been touched up, in time for the march that took place in Belfast on August 24th as part of the national hunger-strike commemoration.
The first mural of Sands was painted on the wall in 1989 and the most recent re-painting prior to this one was in 2015 – see the wall’s Visual History page.
August 23rd:
August 20th:
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Graffiti-art in Pilot Street, Sailortown, by ?Dublin artist ASIK? (please get in touch if you can confirm).
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“A community project between St Patrick’s Church [Fb], Millisle Youth Forum [Fb], Blaze FX and Ards Borough Council [web] PCSP [Police & Community Safety Partnership].”
On the left is the Ballycopeland Windmill.
Main Street, Millisle
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