Here are three boxes in a row in Ann Street, with a toast to city-centre revellers by Zippy (web). For more city centre boxes, see Pink Moon Gonna Get You All, and for more on the painting of boxes in Belfast, see the Visual History page.
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These Saoradh (web) boards calling for attendance at the national march from Creggan to the new (2022) “People’s Monument” in Rossville Street are in Hugo Street (above) and Beechmount Drive (below):
“National Republican Commemoration Committee national Easter commemoration: assemble at Creggan shops – 2pm Monday 21st April 2025 for march to the People’s Monument — Free Derry Corner. Wear your Easter lily with pride.”
For a full list of this year’s commemorative marches, see Republican News.
Easter Monday falls late this year – April 21st – though still not as late as it did in 1916, when it was on the 24th. The event is typically celebrated at Easter, regardless of its proximity to the 24th, though for the centenary in 2016, anti-Agreement republicans commemorated the Rising on April 24th, specifically, while others paraded at Easter (which was at the end of March).
For the Finucane board, see Pat Finucane.
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This Lasaır Dhearg (web) board in Lenadoon is explicit in defending the use of physical force by Palestinians (specifically by the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine – WP): “Palestine has a right to resist. The Palestinians have a legal and moral right to resist the illegal occupation of their land by the Zionist settler entity known as ‘Israel’. We support a one-state solution: Palestine, free, from the river to the sea.”
At the Suffolk Road end of Falcarragh Drive/Céıde An Fháıl Charraıgh, formerly the site of Car Crime Is A Growing Problem.
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The painting of electrical boxes began in earnest in Belfast in 2019 with the Belfast Canvas Project. The idea was also taken up in CNR west Belfast, though without the support of the Belfast Canvas Project.
The five shown here are in North Howard Link, Glen Road, Glen Road, Edenmore Drive, and Springhill Drive and the latter three reflect the ‘community’ theme that the boxes have had in CNR west Belfast – “deeds not words” is the motto of St Teresa’s primary, the second is from De La Salle secondary, and the last is of falling-down buildings (perhaps) inspired by the bombing of Gaza.
The first two (above – artist unknown – and immediately below – by Perla Mansour (web)), however, don’t fit with this theme and are more akin to the ape on Broadway and the abstract lines/clouds in Iveagh St.
For more on the painting of boxes in Belfast, see the Visual History page.
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Here is a selection of east Belfast electrical boxes painted with street art.
Above: Face – emic (web) – Templemore Avenue
Below:
Beanie – ? – Portallo Street
Crayons – FGB (web) – Ladas Drive
Wasp – ?NRMN? – Castlereagh Street
Bee – NRMN (ig) – Castlereagh Street
Frog – ? – Mount Merrion Avenue
Be Glad – ? – Mount Merrion Avenue
Mole – ? – Mount Merrion Avenue
In Flight – Imogen Donegan (ig) – Albertbridge Road
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Here is a selection of city centre electrical boxes, painted as part of the Belfast Canvas project, which first recruited artists to paint electrical boxes in 2019. For more on the painting of boxes in Belfast, see the Visual History page.
Above, Create – KinMx (web) – High Street.
Below:
Flowers In Hair – Emily Nayhree (ig) – High Street
Grim Reaper – ? – Gordon Street
Pink Moon Ghost Painter – Leo Boyd (web) – Dunbar Link
Band – David McMillan (web) – East Bridge Street
Murmuration – S Majury (web) – East Bridge Street
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These electrical boxes are at the entrance to the Glencolin estate in west Belfast. The one above previously had an RSF stencil on it – see Restoration Of The Monarchy – but now bears an image of a Palestinian child in the ruins of Gaza flying a kite. (For the symbolism, see Tell My Story and My Kite You Made.
The arabic (“فلسطين”) reads “Palestine”.
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Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom are the stripes on an Israeli-flag-coloured snake that has Earth in its coils.
This is an RNU Belfast (Fb) mural in opposition to the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Glen Road at Ramoan Gardens, west Belfast
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Gort Na Móna CLG (Fb) has been “at the heart of the [Turf Lodge] community”, inculcating “muıntearas, mısneach, féınluach, bród [friendship, bravery, self-esteem, pride]” in its young people “ó/since 1974”.
The text and emblem appear here against a montage of photographs over-washed in the club colours of maroon, saffron, and blue.
[A small typographic note: different fonts are used for the Irish on the left and the Irish in the middle; the font in the middle (correctly) lacks tittles/dots on the letter “ı”.]
Springfield Road, at the upper entrance to the estate and across the road from the electrical boxes seen in Lóıste Na Móna.
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For International Women’s Day (March 8th) HM Constance (web) went to work on Lanark Way (next to Times Change) painting a celebratory piece for SHE Youth Club (“Supporting Her Empowerment” – Belfast Live) that is one of the programmes at R-City (web).
“I am intelligent, I am beautiful, I am funny, I am determined, I am powerful, I am graceful, I am independent, I am influential, I am strong, I am confident, I am a women [sic]”.
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