Here is a deliberately varied bouquet of flowers by emic (web), reflecting the support for this piece from Arts Ekta (web), sponsors of Belfast Mela.
In Larkstone Street, south Belfast, on the side wall of LNV Home (web). Official title, “The Garaden”.
See also by emic in south Belfast: Cherry blossoms | Map Heads
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“No sovereignty = no control”. Great Britain and the European Union combine to push Ireland through the grinder for American profit. This mural is a cartoon by Carlos Latuff (ig) reproduced by 32CSM (web) on Divis Street, Belfast.
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Katie Taylor and Carl Frampton are featured on the large mural at Antrim Boxing Club (Fb), painted by Visual Waste (ig) with support from the Housing Executive (Press Release), Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, and the executive’s T:BUC programme (see previously Belfast Melt).
Below are the small murals on the other walls, of the club’s logo, including the Round Tower (DfC), and of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (web).
For another Taylor mural, see School Of Champions. Frampton appears in half-a-dozen other murals, most prominently in The Jackal.
Durnish Road, Antrim.
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“Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine was an Author, Minister and local resident [of “Antrim Town”] 1863-1941.” The family home where he was raised was in Pogue’s Entry, now a museum and site of the blue plaque, below, outside which sits the mural above (paid for by Lidl) (Antrim Guardian). (ITV video of the house from 1960 and 1963.)
Irvine worked in Belfast and Scotland before joining the Royal Marines. He moved to the United States in 1888, graduated from Yale and was ordained, took up various ministerial positions in the US, and became a social radical over time (Irish Biography). Irvine died in Hollywood, California; his collection of autographs and letters from 77 famous figures is held by the University Of California.
He is best known as an author and playwright. The book on top of the pile is the best-seller My Lady Of [The] Chimney Corner (pdf), an autobiographical book about “Irish peasant life” written in 1913 in tribute to his mother, who had not lived to see his military successes.
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Here are the pieces painted for the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council’s ‘Botanical Borough’ project (BelTel), co-orindated by Daisy Chain (web). There are seven pieces by Hixxy (ig), one of a flower chosen by each of the seven different electoral areas of the Borough, in the towns of Randalstown, Antrim, Crumlin, Ballyclare, Whiteabbey, Monkstown, and Glengormley, with an additional piece in four of the towns by other aritsts.
Above is a flax flower by Hixxy in John St, Randalstown. Immediately below are bluebells by Hixxy and Andy Council at the library in Railway St, Antrim. The others follow.
Wild Roses by Hixxy and Woskerski on Main St, Crumlin
Flax flowers by Hixxy and Holly Pereira (with horses) in Ballyclare
Cherry Blossom by Hixxy next to the Six Three One Cafe in Whiteabbey
Flax by Hixxy at The Butchers & Deli in Monkstown
Forget-Me-Nots by both Hixxy, at the Lilian Bland Community Park, and Kitsune, on the Antrim Rd, Glengormley
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Here are the pieces from the recent Celebrating Autumn jam on the side of the Artcetera alley next to the First Presbyterian church, off Rosemary Street, in Belfast city centre, with art from left to right/top to bottom by ?, @adajacooper, @contemplatingthestars, @codoartni, @tulgalkh, @hmconstance, and @joha_mune.
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Two dog-friends dig up a treasure-trove of buried bones in the back of Whiteabbey car park on the old Shore Road. Below is just part of the very long nature mural below the fencing.
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“United in struggle for freedom and sovereignty. Beir bua! #BDS #FreePalestine. www.32csm.org” — Palestinian and Irish fists raised together in solidarity.
Divis Street, west Belfast, perhaps using the same stencil in Free Palestine on Beechmount Avenue and in Springhill in 2014 reproducing a Latuff cartoon.
Replaces Black Lives Matter.
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“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Work to clean up and beautify Devlin’s Lane in Whiteabbey began in 2020, with the large butterfly mural shown above (Belfast Live); 15 (16?) boards showing local history were put in place in August 2021 (NIWorld | Belfast Live). The text on the ‘White Abbey’ panel comes directly from WP.
The project was organised by Whiteabbey Residents’ Association, with funding from Translink – the alley (official name, Abbeyville Place) runs to Whiteabbey train station.
The ‘Justice4Noah’ and ‘Your best is good enough’ panels seem to have a different origin.
The panels are presented here from north to south, beginning with the western side:
The wall then switches to the eastern side of the alley:
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