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Map of Belfast's Peace Walls. Check out the Map of Belfast's Peace Walls to see the location of various peace lines around Belfast. List of Murals. If you know the name of the mural you wish to read more about then go to the A to Z Listing of all the murals held on the Virtual Belfast Mural Tour system.
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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. Here's our brief guide to Northern Ireland's peace lines. Peace Wall, Belfast | © Nick / Flickr
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Today, Belfast counts 30.5km of walls in a total of 97 different barriers and forms of defensive architecture, including walls, fences, gates and closed roads. These are primarily in the.
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The 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 and unionist Protestant neighbourhoods. They have been built at urban interface areas in Belfast and elsewhere.
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Welcome to the map of Belfast's peace walls on Virtual Belfast Mural Tour. Use the map below to find your way about Belfast and see where the peace lines are. The peace walls in Belfast, also known as peace lines, are a series of separation barriers.
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Belfast Peace Lines - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Atlas Obscura Belfast Peace Lines Belfast, Northern Ireland These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past..
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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..
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Peace walls still proliferate, especially in Belfast. One at Cupar Way, between the Falls and Shankill, stands 45-feet tall, three times higher than the Berlin Wall, and in place for twice.
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1. Location The most prominent of the peace walls in Belfast are found, unsurprisingly, between The Falls Road and The Shankill Road in West Belfast. There are also peace walls in North Belfast, East Belfast, Portadown and Derry. 2. What it's all about
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The barrier or 'Peace Wall' was erected in 1994 marking the day of the IRA ceasefire. You can access the north area of the park from Antrim road (republican zone) and the south end of the park can be accessed from Shore road (loyalist zone). Alexandra Park Peace Wall, Belfast. Source: Keith Ruffles/ Wikimedia Commons
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Map of the Week: Peacewalls in Belfast By Nina Edward This map, from the Peacewall Archive, shows where peace walls in Belfast are still up in 2017. The Troubles was a period of violent conflict from 1969-1998 in Belfast between paramilitary groups and the British military over ethno-religious identities.
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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 or two.
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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. At the height of the troubles, these were used as security checkpoints.
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In total, these walls stretch over 34 kilometres or 21 miles, with a majority being located in north and west Belfast. The peace walls vary in size, with some being a few hundred metres to over 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) long and up to 8 metres high. Even the materials used to construct these walls vary as you will see some made of bricks, iron.
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By the first day of 1971, the number of peace walls in Belfast had increased to 17. The view in 1999 of the Springfield Park peace wall in west Belfast.