Art sets Tone for Corners.Byline: By DAVID YOUNG David Young could refer to:
BELFAST unveiled its newest public art yesterday - and it celebrates the city's rich history of plot and intrigue. The paintings, to go on display in the newly-restored Four Corners area of the Cathedral Quarter For the Belfast area, see . The Cathedral Quarter is one of Sheffield's eleven designated quarters, based around and named after the Cathedral. It is bound by Tenter Street to the Northwest, West Bar to the North, Snig Hill to the North east, Angel Street to the East, High , show Wolfe Tone's Society of United Irishmen The Society of United Irishmen was founded as a Liberal political organisation in eighteenth century Ireland that sought Parliamentary reform.[1] However it evolved into a revolutionary republican organisation, allied with Revolutionary France. who met there in secret in the 1790s. Artist Michael O'Neill said: "I was keen that the four paintings should reflect the breadth of thinking of the United Irishmen and their legacy in the fields of knowledge, culture, radical liberalism and human courage. "At the heart of their thoughts and actions lay love of their fellow countrymen and a desire for equality." The art is part of an ongoing regeneration which later this month will see the opening of a new pounds 15million hotel and a new bar and restaurant. Social Development minister Margaret Ritchie said it was a "top quality development in a very important part of Belfast's city centre". CAPTION(S): UNITED FRONT Artist Michael O'Neill with Minister Margaret Ritchie yesterday |
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