Street Art – Electrical Boxes

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Mad About Cork’s electrical box paintings honour a wide variety of Cork heroes and characters including Cillian Murphy, Maggie Barry, Daniel Florence O’Leary, Mary Agnes Clerke, Ashling Thompson, Mary Elmes, the O’Donovan Brothers, King Joffrey/Jack Gleeson, and the legendary Cork band The Frank and Walters.

Other projects include a collaboration with the Cork Samaritans to promote their freephone 116 123 support services. We also have numerous other decorative boxes dotted around town with more to come throughout 2017.

Anyone looking to sponsor a box should get in touch here.

Bill O’Herlihy

Karen Underwood

Tribute to the Cork-born Mary Elmes who worked as a humanitarian during the Spanish Civil War and WW2, saving hundreds of children in Vichy Franc from Nazi concentrations camps.

A nice moment as we were painting this tribute when we met Wayne Elmes (great grand nephew of Mary) who happened to be passing by! Wayne is on the left of the pic with Kevin O’Brien

Collaboration with Our Lady of Lourdes NS where the pupils took part in a competition organised by Cllr. Kieran McCarthy to design artwork for a box in the Mad About Cork style which we then painted in their locality.

Ellen Hutchins died at 29 but made a great contribution in the field of botany – identifying, collecting, and even illustrating hundreds of plant specimens

Rory Gallagher – Sponsored by Cork City Library

‘Feens & beors love the taste… Tanora’

Boxes painted by the on Grattan St

Agnes Mary Clerke – Sponsored by Blackrock Castle Observatory. Clerke, an astronomer in the 19th century, is the only Corkonian with a crater on the moon named after her.

Sponsored by ACET, Wellington Place

Rebel Rebel – Perkin Warbeck

Warbeck is the reason why Cork became known as the rebel city after he duped Corkonians into believing he was of in line to the English throne in the 15th century.