The female figure painted by Irony (Fb | tumblr) for CNB/HTN was the subject of a naming competition. There were various humorous suggestions but our favourite is “Iris”, to go with “Aether and Echo”, which is the name of the pub.
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Coinciding with the Joe Caslin piece of the same name in Hill Street last (2016) summer and the attending street-exhibition of photos, here is “love wins” at the back of the Maverick bar in Donegall Street.
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Manchester’s Nomad Clan were in town for CNB17/HTN17 and painted the large wall outside the Dirty Onion in Hill Street, punning on local shipbuilders Harland & Wolff. There’s some video of the piece in progress in this CNN profile.
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The Art Department (Fb) is not an academic unit but a night club in Little Donegall Street, Belfast.
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19-year-old Caoilfhinn Hanton from Tramore (inst) spray-painted this representation of a dilemma familiar to many: what to get from the take-away – curry 1/2 n /1/2 or pastie bap?
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Here is Kev Largey’s (KVLR web) piece for CNB/HTN17, next to the John Peel mural in Commercial Court.
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Rob Hilken (web | inst) – artist and NI manager for Visual Arts Ireland – painted a load of bananas for Culture Night/Hit The North 2017.
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Thomas Ashe was working as an Irish teacher in Dublin when he joined the Irish Volunteers and in 1916 served as a battalion commander in the Easter Rising, for which he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He went on hunger strike in May 1917 and again in September when he was rearrested by the British authorities for a “seditious” speech. He died on September 25th, one hundred years ago, becoming “an chéad staılceoır ocraıs a maraíodh san 20ú haoıs” (“first hunger striker to die in the 20th century”).
In the five circles around his portrait are Countess Markievicz, Pádraig Pearse, and James Connolly – fellow fighters in the Rising – and Máırtín Ó Cadhaın (author of Cré Na Cılle and IRA member interned during WWII), and the symbol of Laochra Loch Lao and more generally of An Ceathrú Gaeltachta/Gaeltacht Quarter (see previously The Big Plan and Onwards). In the middle (shown in detail below), An Dream Dearg march in support of Acht Na Gaeılge (an Irish language Act) past the Bobby Sands mural on Sevastopol Street.
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