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Although temporary peace walls were built in Belfast in the 1920s (in Ballymacarett) and 1930s (in Sailortown), the first peace lines of "the Troubles" era were built in 1969, following the outbreak of civil unrest and the 1969 Northern Ireland riots. They were initially built as temporary structures, but due to their effectiveness they have ...
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 ...
Cluan Place (derived from Irish Cluain 'meadow') is a Protestant working-class area in eastern inner-city Belfast, in Northern Ireland. [1] There is currently a peace line, separating the area from Roman Catholic Short Strand. [1] [2] Rioting between neighbouring Loyalist and Republican factions has been a feature of the area's recent past.
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 ...
Belfast remains a divided city. There are 14 neighborhoods in the inner-city of Belfast some of which are divided by peace lines. [7] These walls were erected by the British Army, after August 1969, at the beginning of the Troubles. They were built in an effort to deal with the nightly rioting in the city at the time, and to stop intimidation ...
A watchtower at a heavily fortified RUC base in Crossmaglen A "peace line" at the back of a house on Bombay Street, Belfast A "peace line" in Belfast, 2010, built to separate nationalist and unionist neighbourhoods. The impact of the Troubles on the ordinary people of Northern Ireland has been compared to that of the Blitz on the people of ...
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.
The modern "peace line" at Bombay Street in Belfast, seen from the Irish Catholic/nationalist side. This is the view from the back of a house. This is the view from the back of a house. The August riots were the most sustained violence that Northern Ireland had seen since the early 1920s.