Street art by Leighoops (ig) for HTN2021. See also Space Bug, painted in August (of 2021) at Artcetera.
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Right Here, Right Now
Work by Alana McDowell (ig) in Kent Street, Belfast, for HTN2021.
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Simulation Is The Future
Floppy disks for PCs running Explorer and vintage Macintoshes by Zippy (ig) in Kent Street, Belfast, for HTN2021.
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Sweets For My Sweet
For a trip down memory lane, check out the wide variety of sweets available from Old Time Favourites, including the foam shrimps and bananas painted by Pigment Space (Fb | ig) on the side of the shop in Winetavern Street, Belfast. Painted by street artist MWAK/Pigment Space (ig).
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Steady, Aim, Fire
Work by Kilian (ig) for HTN21 in Kent St.
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Tsuru
“Tsuru” is the Japanese for “crane”, which a symbol for peace, and it appears here on the Cupar Way “peace” line in west Belfast. The QR code is for an iPhone and Android app about peace building in Belfast and Hiroshima. You can learn how to make an origami crane here.
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Crowded Together
Work by Codo (ig) on the Cupar Way “peace” line.
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It’s Fab
FAB or FGB – they’re one and the same, really. Street art by Franc Got Buffed (ig), ice lolly by Nestlé, six for a pound seventy-five at Tesco.
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From The Plough To The Stars
“A free Ireland will control its own destiny from the plough to the stars.” So James Connolly is said to have explained the significance of “the plough in the stars” (Ursa Major) as a symbol of Irish revolutionary socialism. (Though no source is given for the remark. See the Paddy Duffy Collection for more.)
Connolly and Seamus Costello, heroes of the IRSP (web) are painted on James Connolly house in Chamberlain Street, Derry, which is also home to Teach Na Fáılte, the Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners group.
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Stars, Look Down/A Réaltaí, Féachaıg’ Anuas
For his contribution to the ‘Art And The Great Hunger’ exhibition in 2019, OMIN (ig | web) drew inspiration from the battering rams used to evict people from their homes – for a photograph see History Today – and the Gabriel Rosenstock poem “Dóıbh Sıúd A Dúnmharaíodh 1845-1850” [To The Murdered Of 1845-1850], which ends “A réaltaí, féachaıg’ anuas/Go dtí nach mbeıdh sa ghrıan/Ach abhac dubh” [Stars, look down/Until the sun is nothing/But a black dwarf] (ig).
With support from UV Arts. The van is part of the piece.
William Street, Derry
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