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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 21/06/2026 01:30:00

Running through parts of Belfast, the peace walls are barriers built to separate communities during the years of conflict in Northern Ireland. Now covered in murals and messages, they have become a place of reflection and a stop for many visitors. The walls were first put up in the late 1960s, at the start of the long period of strife, to keep apart neighbourhoods of different traditions. They were meant as a temporary measure. Over the decades the barriers grew taller and more numerous, made ...