Belfast Peace Walls: History, Map + How to See Them - The Irish …
WEBJul 16, 2024 · The Belfast Peace Walls were constructed in a bid to reduce tensions in the city between Loyalist and Nationalist communities. Standing for longer than the Berlin Wall ever did and now part of the city’s social fabric, the Belfast Peace Walls have become part of the Belfast experience.
Peace lines - Wikipedia
WEBThe peace lines or peace walls are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that separate predominantly Irish republican or nationalist Catholic neighbourhoods from predominantly British loyalist or unionist Protestant neighbourhoods. They have been built at urban interface areas in Belfast and elsewhere.
A history of the peace walls in Belfast
WEBApr 21, 2021 · Temporary peace walls have stood in Northern Ireland since the 1920s, but the majority were built after the events of August 1969, when intense sectarian violence broke out in Belfast and...
The Belfast Peace Wall Murals - Time Travel Turtle
WEBAug 3, 2023 · The most famous of the ‘peace walls’, as they’re now known, divides the Falls and Shankill Roads in the western part of Belfast. It runs for several kilometres and is interrupted at several junctions by enormous metal gates across roads.
Belfast has more peace walls now than 25 years ago – removing …
WEBApr 26, 2023 · Even after the Good Friday Agreement formalised the end of the Troubles in 1998, peace walls continued to be built. Today, Belfast counts 30.5km of walls in a total of 97 different barriers...
The Story Behind Northern Ireland’s Peace Walls - Culture Trip
WEBAug 22, 2017 · Belfast is a small city, but it’s demarcated by almost 100 ‘peace walls’ that separate Catholic and Protestant areas. Once serving as peace-keeping measures, they are now, in a post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland, popular tourist locations.
Belfast's walls from the Troubles are set to come down, but ... - NPR
WEBSep 7, 2023 · Belfast's peace walls, built in the Troubles to tamp sectarian violence, were slated to be torn down in 2023. But locals are protesting. Many want them preserved as war relics & public art.
Belfast Peace Walls – Amazing Murals and History in Belfast
WEBApr 15, 2024 · The Belfast Peace Walls are barriers erected to separate Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland. They are located in Belfast, Derry, Portadown, and elsewhere.
Divided by a peace wall, united through friendship - BBC News
WEBAug 3, 2023 · There are still over 20 miles of peace walls - or peace lines - across Northern Ireland, the Majority across Belfast. In 2023, about 60 remain, scattered mostly across Belfast, but with one...
The peace walls of Belfast: Do they still help keep the peace?
WEBAug 29, 2019 · (Nahlah Ayed/CBC) The walls — more than 60 of them in Belfast alone — exist in a kind of limbo between war and peace. They come in many forms — there are concrete walls, metal fences and even...