{"id":559301,"date":"2026-04-30T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559301\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:02:08","slug":"sculpture-made-from-parts-of-boyne-bridge-celebrates-belfasts-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559301\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture made from parts of Boyne Bridge celebrates Belfast&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd7n83rn8xvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Some protests were held in the Sandy Row<\/a> area after news of the decision to dismantle the bridge was announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">William III, or King Billy, is believed to have crossed the site on his way to the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elements from the bridge were repurposed for the sculpture which is in Saltwater Square, the new civic space next to the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richards, from the Golden Thread Gallery, said collaboration went into the design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do a lot of my talking with a pencil, so as we&#8217;re talking, I&#8217;m sketching, and I think we came to this idea relatively quickly,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would have done the initial sketch, but I&#8217;d have done it as we were all talking, so I&#8217;m not sure whose idea it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the team thought of other ideas but &#8220;came back to the one that stood out as actually being most appropriate in terms of celebrating and commemorating&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some protests were held in the Sandy Row area after news of the decision to dismantle the bridge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-559301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}