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A 5.5-metre-high (18-foot) peace line along Springmartin Road in Belfast, with a fortified police station at one end The peace line along Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Protestant side The peace line at Bombay Street/Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Catholic side Gates in a peace line in West Belfast
The "peace line" along Cupar Way in West Belfast. Interface area is the name given in Northern Ireland to areas where segregated nationalist and unionist residential areas meet. They have been defined as "the intersection of segregated and polarised working class residential zones, in areas with a strong link between territory and ethno ...
These have multiplied over the years and now number forty separate barriers, mostly located in Belfast. Despite the moves towards peace between Northern Ireland's political parties and most of its paramilitary groups, the construction of "peace lines" has actually increased during the ongoing peace process; the number of "peace lines" doubled ...
Gates in a "peace line" in West Belfast. Over 21 miles of high walling or fencing separate Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland, with most concentrated in Belfast and Derry. The wall [clarification needed] was built in 1969 in order to separate the Catholic and Protestant areas in Belfast. [45]
The subdivisions of Belfast are a series of divisions of Belfast, Northern Ireland that are used for a variety of cultural, electoral, planning and residential purposes.. The city is traditionally divided into four main areas based on the cardinal points of a compass, each of which form the basis of constituencies for general elections: North Belfast, East Belfast, South Belfast, and West Belfast.
His fourth memoir ‘Little House on the Peace Line’ (2017) tells the story of how he lived and worked on the peace line in North Belfast in the 1980s. His first novel ‘Belfast Gate’ (2019) is a satirical comedy set in 2019 about a group of Catholic and Protestant women who start a campaign to take down Belfast's 50 year old peace walls.
Ukraine-Russia mapped: How battle lines compare to pre-war 2014 borders ahead of potential peace talks. Tom Watling. February 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM.
One of the "peace lines" in Ardoyne, segregating Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods Holy Cross is a girls-only Catholic primary school in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast. Ardoyne was one of the most deprived areas of Northern Ireland.