Gort Na Móna CLG was founded in 1974, developing out of the old Gort Na Móna secondary (before it became part of Corpus Christi). NVTv produced a programme to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary (youtube). These painted junction boxes are on Monagh Road and the Springfield Road.
See also Lóıste Na Móna | Ag Croí An Phobaıl | Gort Na Móna.
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This is a painted tribute to Jim McKee, who was known as “Mr Immaculata” for his long-time support of Immaculata FC (Fb). McKee died in August when he was hit by a car near the Grosvenor community centre (BBC).
See also: Come On, The Mac, which is a stone’s throw further down Albert Street.
Servia Street, lower Falls, west Belfast
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A long wall along Duncrue Street has been painted with five pieces – two by Karl Fenz (web), two by Danni Simpson (web), one by HMC (web) – with design-work – presumably by Rob Hilken (web) – between the representational pieces. The photographs below span a month, as the artists painted at different times in late 2025 and generally had to contend with poor winter weather.
While HMC features a kingfisher, the others make reference to the shipping industry and the harbour as a gateway to the world. Above and immediately below: a vintage dock-worker is seen through a port-hole gazing pensively over one of the H&W gantry cranes and a ship in Belfast harbour. In the other Fenz piece, a crane can be seen in the reflection of the glasses of a visitor to the Titanic Quarter. The one work by Simpson features a cruise-ship (perhaps the Odyssey that was stuck in Belfast for four months – AP), and the compass and globe in the other piece suggest that Belfast is a gateway to the wider world.
October 31st:
December 21st:
December 21st:
November 30th:
November 16th – cartoon over the doodle-grid:
October 31st:
November 30th:
October 31st – blacking and cartoon on top of the doodle-grid:
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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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This edgy interpretation of the Mexican tradition of La Calavera Catrina can be found in an alley off Fountain Street, Belfast city centre.
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“I am … strong, focused, love, hope, caring, beautiful, body & mind.” M-Space is a project from Springboard Opportunities (web) providing intensive mental-health services for 115 young people.
This pair of utility boxes is on Royal Avenue, Belfast city centre. The backgrounds on the rear were perhaps painted during Culture Night.
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These Easter lilies are on a junction box on the Springfield Road at New Barnsley Park, west Belfast, and across the street from the boxes seen in Bóthar Chluanaí and Gaırdín Na hÉıreann.
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This is a freshly-repainted sign for “South Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force, 2nd battalion, A company Donegall Pass” on the back wall of the Hideout bar. The previous version was painted c. 2005.
Also included is a small board added next to the Defenders flute band board across the street, which presents the words of McCrea’s poem In Flanders Fields.
Pine Street, Donegall Pass, south Belfast
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Belfast was designated a UNESCO “city of music” four years ago, in November, 2021. To mark the anniversary, Friz (web) and NRMN (ig) have painted this large piece of street-art in the guise of a VU indicator (with seven segments, nine levels, four colours). The city’s efforts to encourage music are outlined in the ‘Music Matters’ plan.
The other pieces in the wide shot can be seen in (l-r) Broken Promises, Glide, neo-pop face by Bust, Beastie Boys, Andrew Weatherall, two from the Subset collective, one of two faces from Woskerski.
on the side of the Telegraph offices in Donegall Street
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