This sunflower was painted by Peaball (web) outside the Old Library Trust’s Healthy Living Centre (web) in Creggan, Derry, as part of Derry & Strabane’s ‘District Of Hope’ initiative (NWMF | Derry Now).
The wall was previously used for a COVID-era mural: Someone To Watch Over Me.
Another sunflower in Derry: We Carry On.
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This is a 2014 mural in Strabane that is still is decent shape and still/again relevant, as there are now more than 62,000 deaths in Gaza (Al Jazeera) and aid into the territory has once again been blocked and electricity cut off by Israel (AP | Standard). The mural reproduces a Carlos Latuff (ig) image of an Israeli Apache helicopter firing a “hellfire” missile at a Palestinian child. It was painted by John Carlin and friends (Highland Radio). (It was also reproduced in Springhill, west Belfast, by Mo Chara Kelly.)
See the Peter Moloney Collection for the mural shortly after its launch.
Springhill Park, Strabane
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“BAPS” is North West Breastfeeding and Perinatal Support (Fb), a support-group formed in response to the low breast-feeding rates in the region (ZeroWaste). In both 2024 and 2023 it participated in ‘world breast-feeding in public day’ with events at the Guildhall (2024 Derry Now | 2023 Derry Journal).
The art shown here was painted by Peaball (web) on an exterior wall of the Pram Centre (web) in Great James Street, Derry and launched on 2024-11-29. (The pixelation is part of the painting. See also the ‘period products’ mural in Belfast – About Bloody Time.)
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The “two nations” are Palestine (flag on the left) and Ireland (flag on the right). Between the two is a balaclava’d face, suggesting violent struggle.
Lisfannon Park, Bogside, Derry
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This Galliagh art encourages “RESPECT” for families and the elderly. The first (“R”) panel is the odd one out, as it includes a (Star Wars) storm-trooper’s helmet and a tribute to Oran McClintock, who died in July (2024) (Derry Now | Funeral Times). The electrical sub-station is near the family home in Moss Park. “May the force be with you!”
This is (presumably) a RAZER (ig) piece, along with young people from Galliagh Community Response (Fb gallery).
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Rapper Biggie Smalls/Notorious BIG shares his name with Derry’s Notorious Street Food (Fb | ig | BelfastLive profile). The art is by Peaball (web) in Northside Village, Glengalliagh Road, Derry, where the truck is parked (Fb).
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The Maritime Festival (web) in various years held a ‘bubble challenge’ that involved people running inside a large inflated tube (youtube video from 2016). Aquatic animals on the other hand come up the river Foyle under their own power, such as Dopey Dick (shown above), an orca who swam up the Foyle in 1977 (Derry Journal) and the otters (in the final two images below) painted by HM Constance (web).
We also see two musical crows – one is playing DJ and the other is carrying a cassette tape – and five humans, who also didn’t come up the Foyle in a bubble – “I didn’t come up (or “float up”) the Foyle in a bubble” means “I’m no fool” or “I wasn’t born yesterday”.
With support from UVArts (web).
For street art using the Belfast/Lagan version of the phrase, see Mother Of God.
Dopey Dick also appeared in a board in the Fountain (CAIN | M03914) and in a piece of street art in Ebrington.
Foyle Street, Derry, which is undergoing a major sewage update (Derry Now).
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Caitlin McLaughlin died suddenly on June 24th, 2023. She collapsed from a heart attack as she walked to the bus station in Belfast to return home from a music festival at which she had taken ecstasy (BBC). A requiem mass was held in Galliagh on the 28th (BelTel) and the mural shown here was launched in Brookdale Park on October 27th, 2023, which would have been Caitlin’s 17 birthday (Belfast Live).
“I saw you all, my family & friends/the day God took me home,/I smiled, I cried, I felt so proud/You didn’t let me go alone//To all my friends, please listen now/To what I have to say,/Please don’t leave your loved ones/the way I did that day//I’m with the angels in heaven now/and with our we[e] Kyle too,/But often I look down and sigh/For I’d rather be there with you//Forget me not/XO”
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The “Lagan Gateway” bridge opened in 2021 (Belfast Media), connecting the Lagan Towpath and the Annadale Embankment, just below the Belfast Boat Club (which is the site of the final image, from The Coffee Box ig) and the Stranmillis weir. The art was added in 2022 by Glen Molloy (Fb) with support from Youth4Nature (ig).
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“A scramble for the window seat, steam curls as the whistle blows. Clickety clack train on track.”
The York Road railway station was a few minutes’ walk below Ritchie Street – site of this wall-paintings and decorations (and Pearly’s Place, the adjacent community garden) – until it closed in 1992. The original line was to Ballymena and then Coleraine and London-/Derry, with service to Carrick and Larne added later. It was badly damaged in WWII and its final demise came with the opening of Belfast Central in 1976 (WP). It was replaced with Yorkgate in 1992 which no longer serves as a terminus (WP), but the line still runs along behind the end of the streets along York Road and the Grove area of the Shore Road.
On the long wall to the right is written “Remember your neighbourhood in the late afternoon sun. The district was a different place then. All you owned was a box full of toys and a smile on your face.”
Ritchie Street, north Belfast
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