Paddy Duffy Collection

Street Dreams

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Here is a selection of painted junction boxes in Newry: “River Deep” is by Zippy (ig) and the theatre curtains and masks by FrankieB (ig); the sunflowers and forest are by HM Constance (web); Hold Tight is for PIPS (ig); In Newry We Trust is by JMK (ig); the three-person hug is by Friz (ig); Bród is by Frankie B (ig).

Locations: ‘Save the bees’ in Buttercrane Quay; ‘River Deep’ in Francis Street; ‘comedy and tragedy’ on Bank Parade; sunflowers and green portal in Cloghanramer Road.

For more, see Amplified Arts on instagram. With support from Newry, Mourne, And Down’s ‘Newry DEA Forum’.

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Carlingford Sunset

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Warrenpoint’s ‘Wake The Giant’ festival (web) returns this year (2025) on June 28th and 29th (programme), featuring a ‘parade of giants’ (puppets) on both days.

This street art was painted for last year’s (2024) festival on the boarded-up façade of the Osborne Hotel by English artist Faunagraphics (web).

Osborne Promenade, Warrenpoint

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Welcome To Narnia

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“‘That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia’ – CS Lewis”. Lewis wrote these words in a letter to his brother Warnie (Guardian), referring to time spent in the area as a child (Ireland.com). The lough can be seen from the glacial erratic known as Cloughmore (the big stone), which sits 300 metres above the town in Kilbroney Park on the slopes of Slieve Martin; a snowy image from behind the rock can be seen at Heart Of Rostrevor.

Also included is an image of the small painting of Mr. Tumnus on the front of the building – he welcomes children who have stepped through the wardrobe.

Both are by Pigment Space (ig) on the Rostrevor Inn in Bridge Street, Rostrevor.

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Fiddler’s Green

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The town of Rostrevor, Co Down, on Carlingford Lough, is home to an annual fiddling and traditional music festival each summer called ‘Fiddler’s Green’ (web). The 2025 installation – from July 16th to 20th – will be the festival’s thirty-seventh.

The fiddler shown here is by Visual Waste (web) on the side of Hillside Holiday Home & Lodge (web), Mary Street, Rostrevor.

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Newcastle Community Cinema

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“NCC” in the final image, below (of movie characters at the cinema), stands for Newcastle Community Cinema (web) which opened on Halloween night, 2009. The street art shown here is at the organisation’s current hall, in Main Street, home not just to movie nights but activities including martial arts and u3a. The pieces are by Friz (web), KVLR (web), and JMK.

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So It Is

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Just Good Grub (ig) is a ready-meal preparation company in the WIN business park in Newry; this recent (2024-06) Visual Waste (web) art is on a wall at the retail outlet on the Belfast Road.

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Out There

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Hit The North returns this weekend with more than fifty street artists painting in the city centre (Seedhead Arts). The main painting session will be on Sunday between 2 and 6 around the Sunflower bar at the junction of Union Street and Kent Street.

As an apéritif many local artists painted on the “Belfast Stories” hoarding along North Street in mid-April. Shown here are the fifteen pieces produced, from left to right/north to south, by …

Conor McClure (ig)
Lost Lines (ig)
Ana Fish (web)
Wee Nuls (web)
Zippy (web)
Kerrie Hanna (web)
HMC (web) who painted Shiela the elephant, who was also the subject of a piece by DanLeo
FGB (web)
Katriona (web)
Illoustrates (ig)
Jacky Sheridan (web)
All The Doodz (ig)
KVLR (web)
Kilian (ig)
Graffic Belfast (ig)

For the previous art on these hoardings, see ‘Bout Ye?

Invasion Of The Building-Snatchers

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The Bank Of Ireland building at the junction of North Street and Royal Avenue was purchased by the City Council in 2021 (Business Insider) with the intention of turning it into a visitor attraction called ‘Belfast Stories’ by 2030. The latest step in the process was a period of public consultation (BelTel). In the meantime, Leo Boyd (web) has taken over the boarded-up space that previously housed the ATM with an image of space invaders hovering over the building.

Roll Of Honour 1981

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For Easter 2025, an “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann roll of honour 1981” board was added to the wall at the top of Bingnian Drive in Andersonstown, with the names of the ten who died in the second hunger strike. “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann” here obscures the difference between the IRA and the INLA (O’Hara, Lynch, Devine), and between the Provisional IRA and the anti-Agreement IRA factions. It’s not clear to what extent the (2009 onward) ONH is currently operating, after a split in 2024 (BelTel 2024 | BelTel 2025).

For the RNU piece on the left (in the wide shot) see The Rising Of The Moon. Like the piece on the right, it features Kieran Doherty and Joe McDonnell, two of hunger strikers who were local to the area. For background information, see the board formerly on the wall: To Whom Do We Owe Our Allegiance Today?