Belfast city centre

A River Runs Through It

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The river in question is the Farset, which in the late 1700s was still open in what was then the Back-Of-The-River area and is now Bank Square. It was all covered over by 1804.

The 2015 installation of ‘life in the old days’ panels is by Annemarie Mullan, Stephen Mackey, and King Street Arts, presenting street scenes inspired by “information from the 1898 census” (CultureNI | Love Belfast).

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St Mary’s Chapel Lane

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St Mary’s Chapel Lane is Belfast’s first post-penal law Catholic church, originally constructed in 1784 with funds from local Presbyterian and Anglican congregations (WP). The current building dates to 1868. It was made a “B1” listed building in 1979. The “doorcase” is described as follows in its entry: “Painted sandstone doorcase comprises a pair of round-headed door openings with vertically-sheeted timber doors and bowtel arches rising from squat green marble columns with elaborate stiff-leaf capitals surmounted by an oval niche housing a statue of St. Mary and flanking seraphims to the spandrels. The entire entrance is framed by a further bowtel arch with chevron moulding and outer hood moulding also rising from a pair of green marble columns.”

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So It Is

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Visual Waste painted a mural on the wall at the Dirty Onion for Harp’s “Pure Here” campaign, featuring sights (such as the Big Fish and the Balls On The Falls) and characters (including the Castle Court busker and Julian Simmons) from Belfast. For information on the launch, which included boxer Carl Frampton, see Belfast Beyond.

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Bank Street

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The old Bank Street (looking towards St Mary’s, Chapel Lane) is recreated in a new mural outside Manny’s fish and chips, though with some liberties taken. (Here is the street in 1915 and in 1924.) Kelly’s Cellars, for example, is where Bittles Bar is shown; Bittles Bar was the flatiron building on Victoria Street, recently sold.

Landmarks such as City Hall, the Titanic Centre, the H&W cranes, and An Chultúrlann are included. On the right side of the mural (see the wide shot, below) three murals are included: the one outside Madden’s Bar, the one on the West Belfast Taxi terminal and the Madonna And Child mural at the bottom of Divis that hasn’t existed since about 2000.

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Paris Breakthrough

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The power of art can take you from central Belfast to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Work by Patrick T Devlin at the ArtCetera Studio (fb) in Rosemary Street, Belfast.

Previously by Devlin at (what was then) the Red Barn Gallery: Blowing My Mind | The Passion | Mr Lee | Attendez: Je Suis Charlie | Space Exploration.

Previously: We Own The Night by Real1.

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