painted wall – Page 3 – Paddy Duffy Collection

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2026-02-082026-02-10Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This entry updates 2025’s C’Mon On In, which showed the low wall with local landmarks. The new pieces on the adjacent wall, the six bollards and three pillars, have a musical theme. The wall to the side depicts a sea-horse and a wolf (from the Belfast coat of arms – see The Sea Walls) among soccer-playing lions against a backdrop of flax flowers.

As before, Carla Hodgson (ig) worked with local children to produce the art (Belfast Live).

Maryville Street, south Belfast

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King Gorilla

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This gorilla wearing a five-pointed crown – painted by Friz – is on the shutters of Urban Ink Tattooz (ig). For the other piece (to the right of the third image) see The Black Rose.

Donegall Road, St James’s, west Belfast

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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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Focus

2026-01-252026-03-07Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This painting of a tailor at work is on the shutters of Focus menswear (web) in South Street, Newtownards.

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Rhys

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Gymnast Rhys McClenaghan is a European, World, and Olympic champion, competing in the pommel horse. He has been awarded both the BEM and the MBE, as well as receiving the freedom of the borough of Ards And North Down (News Letter) – McClenaghan hails from Newtownards.

This new mural, by Jossie Pops (web), is in South Street.

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Don’t Look Up

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Smile … you’re on CCTV. A “peace line” or “war wall” divides the CNR Newington and PUL Tiger’s Bay along the top of Hallidays Road, and ends with an abandoned building at the junction with the Limestone Road. In 2002, in response to persistent rioting, rather than closing off the road, five cameras were installed on the Limestone Road at the point where the two areas meet (BBC | Community Relations pdf). Once installed, the range and power of the cameras were pre-emptively demonstrated to local youths (Guardian).

According to Forss 2018 (p. 53), the concrete bases were painted by a local youth-group (pdf) circa 2015. These jaunty images, and the mural in the background of the fifth image (When Young People Are United), attempt to present a different vision of the interface to young children going to Currie Primary and the Sunshine play-group.

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Cullybackey Village

2026-01-232026-01-29Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This Cullyback art is a “Shared Island” (gov.ie) project, created as a collaboration between Waterford City & County Council and Mid- & East-Antrim Borough Council. It shows, from left to right, children playing soccer in front of Buick Memorial school, the Cullybackey Pipe Band (Fb), the Railway Sleeper (Discover NI), wildlife at the Cullybackey Bridge (geograph), and Maine works.

Paint by Claire Prouvost (web), 2025-10, with support from The Walls Project (Fb) and Cullybackey Community Partnership (Fb).

Main Street, Cullybackey, between the Maine business centre and Boots.

Storm Xccessories

2026-01-232026-03-08Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This vintage car was painted by Visual Waste (ig) for Storm Xccessories (web) in Garvagh Road, Swartagh

Go With The Flow

2026-01-232026-01-26Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Just go with the flow.” The river Bann rises in the Mournes and flows through the Lough and on towards the north coast. The lower Bann passes under nine bridges (WP), the oldest of which, just east of Kilrea, was built in 1783 (Derry Now). It features in this Kilrea mural, painted by Peaball (web) with local school-children at the entrance to the Maghera Street car-park in Kilrea, with support from Kilrea Community & Fairy Thorn Association (Fb) and funding from Donaghy Brothers (web).