The IRSP/RSYM will commemorate the Easter Rising with wreath-laying in Derry (IRSP Derry Fb | RSYM Fb) on Saturday and a parade in Belfast on Easter Sunday (IRSP Lower Falls Fb). These posters of the seven signatories to the Proclamation are on the Falls Road, at Waterford Street/Dunville Park, west Belfast.
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Mercedes Gleitze was an open-water endurance swimmer who achieved various feats, including swimming the English Channel and the Straits Of Gibraltar. She also attempted to swim the North Channel eight times, starting on four occasions from Donaghadee (Brighton Museum), site of these drawings by artist Vanessa Daws (web | Swimming A Long Way Together) – herself an open-water swimmer – on a shelter on Commons Park.
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Here are the results of a recent paint-jam in the Project 24 space near Bangor Marina. From top to bottom (left to right on the wall):
Nozzle-headed cats by ?Imogen Donegan (ig) and Ana Fish (ig)?,
a spooky sprayer by Critter (ig),
a toothsome skull by ANCO and (A)SEK (ig) of TMN,
a (painted and not in fact) sewn face by Codo (ig),
a cigarette smoker by Féoıl (ig),
a smiling shark by Keyto (ig), and
writing by TORE
2025-12 Twist The Sinews Of Thy Heart
2025-06 Love All Round Ye
2025-04 Shrunken Heads
2024-11 Zoom! (which includes Glen Molloy’s remaining JOHNDEN piece, which can be seen in the wide shot, below)
2024-04 How About This For Art?
2023-11 Stop Ruining Art
2023-04 Around Every Corner
2023-01 This Is Not The Same As Every Day
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Here is a trio of inspirational and mental-health messages on the wall of Bangor Foodbank & Community Support Resource Centre (web).
The first panel shows people tossing a ball around in McKee Clock Arena (WP), with the message, “No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all”.
The second shows children under dark clouds, bound by the chains of social media and alcohol that can be broken by a dove.
The third shows people climbing the hills around Scrabo tower, illustrating the message, “You have two hands, one to help yourself, the second to help others”.
Painted by “Stephen Greer art & design” (web) in Balloo Avenue, Bangor.
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This pair of masks is outside Studio 1A in Hamilton Road, Bangor.
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A “living mural” on and around the wall around the Ark Housing (web) in Millisle, Co Down, was announced last (2025) summer (Newtownards Chronicle) with art by Blaze FX (ig) complemented by planters. So far, it seems that only background colours and various line-drawings of wildlife have been completed.
With support from the Millisle And District Community Association (Fb) and Ulster Wildlife (Fb).
Ballymacruise Drive, Millisle
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The poppies in this new mural suggest WWI, but the “pants” over the wheels of the planes shown here as they pass Scrabo tower suggest a post-war plane (or a modern light aircraft).
Painted by Blaze FX with Housing Executive support in Abbot Drive, Newtownards, (Bowtown CDG Fb) replacing a gallery of five UVF boards.
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“Palestine bleeds. Over 20,000 children killed. That’s more than one child killed every hour. And 42,000 injured by the Israeli murder machine. Their revenge will be the laughter of their children. Andersonstown stands with Palestine. We are all Palestinians.” The figures perhaps come from a Save The Children report from September, 2025.
South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast, next to the large Oppression Breeds Resistance mural.
See also: The Occupied Territories.
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Belfast match-maker Maguire & Paterson made matches under the brands Buffalo, Swift, Bo-Peep, and City Hall (and perhaps others). The factory was on the Donegall Road, on what became, for a time, the site of West Side Stores (and is now a set of houses facing the Park Centre. Here is an aerial view (on Fb) of the factory in 1947, when Celtic Park was still standing.
This tribute to the Belfast match is by Leo Boyd (web) in Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast.
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