HomeNo Mean City Photographic Exhibition
Commissioned to mark the centenary of Belfast City Hall in 2006, the No Mean City Photographic Exhibition profiles more than 50 of Belfast's most celebrated citizens who have made a contribution to society over the past 100 years.It is located in The Bobbin coffee shop and exhibtion area in City Hall.
Photographs
Photographed by Belfast-born Michael Donald, the exhibition features a wealth of celebrated citizens from the past century, from backgrounds as diverse as sport and music, literature and trade unionism, drama and medicine, business and engineering.The complete list of portraits featured in No Mean City is as follows:
- Alan Green - sports commentator
- Alex Higgins - snooker player and former world champion
- Amy Carmichael - missionary
- Angela Feeney - opera singer
- Anna Lo - community worker
- Basil Blackshaw and Neil Shawcross (pictured together) - artists
- Brian Keenan - writer
- Brian Kennedy - singer/songwriter
- Brian Magee and John Caldwell (pictured together) - boxers
- C S Lewis - writer
- David Healy - footballer
- Dawson Stelfox - architect and mountaineer
- Francis McPeake - musician
- Frank Pantridge (Professor ) - pioneering cardiologist
- Gary Lightbody - musician
- George Best - footballer
- Glenn Patterson - novelist
- Gloria Hunniford - broadcaster
- Ivan 'Van' Morrison - musician
- James Galway - flautist
- James Larkin - trade unionist
- James Magennis VC - war hero
- Jimmy Ellis - actor
- Joe Kavanagh - shopkeeper
- John Boyd Dunlop - inventor
- John Hewitt - poet
- John T Davis - film maker
- Keith Donald - musician
- Kenneth Branagh - actor/director
- Lilian Spence - centenarian
- LL McCassey - civil engineer
- Lord Kelvin - scientist
- Lord Rana - entrepreneur
- Margaret Byers - educationalist (founder of Victoria College)
- Marie Jones - playwright
- Mark Irvine and Danny Devenny (pictured together) - mural painters
- Mary McAleese - President of Ireland
- Mary O`Malley - founder of the Lyric Theatre
- Mary Peters (Dame) - athlete, sports ambassador and Olympic gold medalist
- May Blood - trade unionist
- Michael Deane - chef
- Michael Longley - poet
- Mike Gibson and Jack Kyle (pictured together) - rugby players
- Oliver Jeffers - artist and children's author
- Otto Jaffa - philanthropist and businessman
- Peter McGuckin - architect
- Rita Duffy - artist
- Ruby Murray - singer
- Seamus Mac Seain - Irish linguist
- Stephen Rea - actor
- Terri Hooley - music promoter
- Thomas Andrews - engineer and designer of Titanic
