Joe Caslin (web) with a poem by Sean Watmore (web) entitled Mind Your Whisht: If lives you talk of are not your own/Whose actions don’t affect you//If existence causes you distress/Your own must be a virtue//Please heed the words my Grandad said/To those who judged another//’Mind your whisht’ and walk away/We’re all in this together.
In Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
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Work by English artist My Dog Sighs (web) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts), with a Belfast-specific reflection, including the Albert Clock and the gantry cranes Samson & Goliath; the child with an ice-cream is three-year-old Teddy, son of street artist Codo (ig).
My Dog Sighs also painted a smaller eye, reflecting the Sunflower Bar, in Kent St.
There is a small bonus piece featuring two “Quiet Little Voices” on a shutter to the left of the main piece.
work-in-progress May 2nd:
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Work (above) by Ana Fish (web) and (below) English artist Roo (web) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
The “Danger 33,000 volts” sign is real – see Electrifying Footwork.
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This is a gallery of pieces from a HTN 2025 warm-up event at the Ulster Sports Club in High Street Court, with work by Niall OL (ig), Friz (web), Holly Pereira (web), FGB (web), Karl Fenz (web), Roo (ig), Shane Ha (web).
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“I was only a working class boy from a [nationalist] ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.” This is a widely-quoted line from Bobby Sands, from an article in Republican News, 16 December, 1978 (page 7 pdf).
The mosaic has been in place since 2012; the quote was perhaps added for the launch of the Bobby Sands statue.
Twinbrook Road, Dunmurry
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Kneecap performed their Coachella sets in front of a large screen onto which messages were projected, including denunciation of the Israeli “genocide” of Palestinians “enabled” by the US (Rolling Stone).
Many cancelled gigs followed, as well as a call from Sharon Osbourne that the band’s work visas be revoked (BBC). In response, Kneecap insisted that their speech was not an incitement to violence (BBC).
The band’s visas might also be in jeopardy because the band has parted ways with booking agents IAG, which sponsored the band’s US tour (Hollywood Reporter).
Further, scrutiny of past performances revealed pro-Hamas and -Hizbollah chants, which have now led to an investigation by the UK’s anti-terror police (NME). The band also apologized for a 2023 remark that “the only good Tory [Conservative MP] is a dead Tory” (BBC).
Many artists and bands have come out in support of Kneecap – about 40 put their names to a statement posted to instagram. The band also has the support of the graffitist in the image above: “Free Palestine – silence = complicity. Seas le Kneecap [stand with Kneecap]”.
See also: I Stand With Kneecap by JMK for Hit The North.
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Here are two paste-ups from illustrator and artist DEID (web) in Belfast city centre.
Above: “Be a bastard – tag yer local electrical box.”
Below: MAGA red-hats with an upside-down Stars And Stripes bring to mind David Bowie’s 1997 song “I’m afraid of Americans” (youtube).
There are more DEID stickers and paste-ups in the Seosamh Mac Coılle collection.
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For Recycle Week 2021 (WRAP), Laura Nelson (ig) and Leo Boyd (web) installed a series of seven pieces (each a combination of sign-writing and paste-up) on the abandoned Fanum House, using CO2-absorbing paint (from Graphenstone) and a potato-based glue for the paste-ups. “A revolution in recycling!”
The X-Wing Land-Rover was a later addition, on top of one of the original paste-ups.
Great Victoria Street and Ventry Street, Belfast city centre
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This is work by David J McMillan (web) for Queen’s Film Theatre (web), next to Cracker Wee Spot in University Square Mews/the alley behind the cinema. On one wall, we have movie-making, with clapboard and camera; on the other, the movie is projected to an audience eating popcorn.
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The flags of the Paratroop Regiment and Israel fly alongside the Union Flag over the Bayardo memorial on the Shankill Road, west Belfast. The boards around the wall present photographs of bombings and killings under headings such as ‘Children murdered by Sinn Fein – IRA‘, ‘Sinn Fein/IRA’s Slaughter Of The Innocents’, ‘IRA – Sinn Fein – ISIS no difference‘.
The Paratroop regiment killed two Protestants on the Shankill in 1972 and the community did not forgive them – compare Stop The Witch Hunt from the middle Shankill with Paras Fight Back – but the flag is now flying at the Argyle Street memorial because, the Belfast Telegraph suggests, Soldier F has links to the area. Soldier F – the Paratroop soldier who is facing two charges of murder on Bloody Sunday 1972 – plead ‘not guilty’ in December 2024 (BBC) and will stand trial in September 2025 (BBC | RTÉ).
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