These are two pieces painted for Hit The North 2026 by (left) Imogen Donegan (ig) and (right) David J McMillan (ig).
Great Victoria Street, opposite the Good Vibrations quartet.
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“Rathcoole remembers 11th November. Lest we forget”, “In remembrance” with some lines from For The Fallen, and “Remember them, generation to generation”.
This trio of WWI memorial boards is on the fence of the basketball court along Derrycoole Way, Rathcoole, Newtownabbey, next to an installation of gravestones and sandbags – Row On Row.
The sponsors in the corners of the board shown above are RATH Community Group (Fb) and Dalaradia (web); they previously jointly supported a QEII mural “On The Occasion Of Her Platinum Jubilee“. RATH holds a commemorative service annually in November.
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“Mícheál Mac Daıbhéad ~ Michael Davitt, 1846 ~ 1906 … a true republican, a revolutionary and a visionary. This mural was erected to celebrate and to thank all those members of Davitt’s GAC, past and present, who have fought, struggled and diligently contributed to the foundation, development and maintainment of this club in serving our local community of the greater Falls, down through the years.”
Mícheál Mac Daıbhéad/Michael Davitt is famous for leading the Irish Republican Brotherhood and as “father of the Land League”, and a west Belfast CLG and social club is named in his honor. The board in the courtyard of the social club includes twenty photographs of the lower Falls area from the years of the Troubles.
“To all my friends I leave kind thoughts, to my enemies the fullest possible forgiveness, and to Ireland the undying prayer for the absolute freedom and independence which it was my life’s ambition to try and obtain for her.” These words come from Davitt’s will; he died at age 60 (Mayo Live). The mural referred to in the information board (in the final image) was painted for the centenary of the club, in 2012.
This board replaces a c. 2014 mural.
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This entry updates the images in Sorry It Was All For Nothing, which showed the central board a few days before its official launch, on May 8th. In the few days before the launch, the “garden” area was added, the pebble-dashed wall was repainted, and the small boards of kneeling soldiers – both WWI and modern British forces – were added on either side.
Doagh Road, Cloughfern, Newtownabbey
Update: the board was paint-bombed; Concerned Parents accused three immigrants in a silver Fiat (Fb) of attacking the “war memorial” but Lasaır Dhearg claimed responsibility (ig).
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Here are two new pieces in the pedestrian tunnel next to the York Street rail station – which was originally painted in the summer of 2024 – by (above) Ana Fish (ig) – featuring her dog Betty (ig) – and by Wee Nuls (ig) (below).
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“Dream. Love. Strength. Achieve. Life can take you higher than drugs.” New (May 2026) figures from the NI Statistics And Research Agency show 251 drug-related deaths in 2024 in Northern Ireland, most of which (219) are from drug abuse (NISRA). This new wall-painting in the New Lodge encourages young people to turn their backs on drugs and engage in activities suc as aerosol art and mountain-climbing.
By Blaze FX (Fb) with support from New Lodge Arts (Fb) and the Housing Executive.
Duncairn Parade, north Belfast
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This is a new piece by Wee Nuls (web) on the side of the bookie’s office in Winetavern Street, making a pair with An Irish Goodbye.
May 18th:
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Christopher “Crip” McWilliams has been added this new version of the INLA memorial on Northumberland Street (Visual History). McWilliams was a long-time member of the IPLO and was present at the Lenadoon shout-out with the RUC in Lenadoon in which Bonanza McCann died. He joined the INLA while in prison for the 1991 killing of a snooker-hall manager (Independent) and in 1987 was the gunman in a team of three that killed the LVF’s Billy Wright in the H-Blocks (IRSN | Cory Report (pdf) | MacLean Report (pdf)).
The info board in the final image was originally mounted in 2014 to accompany the version painted on a board which featured Loughran, McLarnon, McCann, and Gallagher, and updated in 2019 for the printed version which added McElkerney.
For images and video from the launch on May 17th, see El Norte De Irlanda.
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Here is a gallery of geometric shapes within circles, painted by Rob Hilken (web) at York Street station and the on- and off-ramps to the Westlink.
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Society of United Irishmen was formed at the Crown Tavern in 1791, with founder members including Thomas Russell, William Drennan, Samuel Neilson (also host to Olaudah Equiano), Henry Joy McCracken, and Wolfe Tone. The building – now called Crown House – is visible upon entering Crown Entry from High Street. These painted windows are on the side of the building, as one proceeds towards Ann Street.
The first pair are by JMK, the second pair by Wee Nuls (ig), painted in 2020, at which time FGB also painted pair that have now faded.
Crown Entry, Belfast. See also the Visual History page on The Belfast Entries.
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