about town: toms bar 2000

article in cartography, the city, published by catalyst arts
distributed throughout belfast

Tom's Bar 30 / 8 / 00
Tom Kellys bar, The Liverpool is shut now but still stands out on its' own like a veritable 21st Century Alamo opposite Belfast's Sea Cat (formally the Liverpool ferry terminal). Arguably the best view was over the bar where you could keep an eye on the progress of your pending pint and enjoy a panoramic view of the Bar and its customers courtesy of the large mirror behind the bar. Now one of the best views afforded by this bar is driving over the M3 as it raises you above the city and across the river towards Sydhnam.

'About Town' consists of a series of incidental stories from around Belfast gathered over the period of two months. These stories are used to attempt to map the city in a verenacular personalised way.

Belfast is a city frequently represented in the printed media but the representations of the city in newspapers are often restricted to familiar cliches of an unlivable place. This article takes the form of a map, acknoweledging it as an editorial document where select information is included or left out according to the maps function.