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2026-05-17 22:05 ๐ฌ๐ง
The O'Neil Portrait is a 2022 art piece by artist Ross Self-McManaman made in response to the death of Terrence O'Neill the year before it consisted of 1.100 images of Terrence O'Neill wrapped around a sphere the images were contrasted to create a mosaic globe with the singular image of O'Neil that represented Northern Ireland colourised. It was displayed in the Sirroco Arts Centre in East Belfast between September 10th of 2022 and August 5th of 2023. Afterwards it was displayed outside Stormount Buildings before being damaged by severe hail the next day and decommisoned. 14 of the 1.100 portraits ended up in the cover of Pbutta and the Shantallow Gang's 2023 release "Real powerful that, but what about the 07.00 train to Omagh not stopping in Sion Mills the one time I need to go and see my aunt in Sion Mills meaning i had to wait near enough half an hour for the next 100a bus to come to go the distance one train stop back and the bus driver wouldn't even let me on for free because of what had happened-
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