The "peace line" between Falls Road and Shankill Road doesn't just start in 1969 but it's modern embodiment 50 years on, remains. A 'peace line' has been in place in Belfast since September 1969 ...

The brick houses of Bombay Street are planted against the concrete and corrugated iron Peace Line like a row of gritted teeth. On Friday morning, children chased each other down sidewalks littered ...

Belfast has come a long way from The Troubles but the International Wall of Art along the Peace Lines has become a street art haven, a modern day Berlin Wall.

Lee is Protestant, Cein Catholic -- and their communities in Belfast’s west inner city are separated by a wall called a peace line. It’s nearly 40 years old and 40 feet high.

The British first started building the gates and peace lines in the 1970s to keep the two sides apart. Both sides of the divided street look the same; brick rowhouses, small shops, churches ...

Detail of the “peace lines” gates that close Belfast’s North Howard street. All photos by Johannes Frandsen and Mattias Lundblad. On April 18, during a night of rioting in the Northern ...

Belfast's first peace lines took shape in the opening salvos of Northern Ireland's conflict in 1969, when impoverished parts of the city suffered an explosion of sectarian mayhem and most ...

In 1935 another temporary divide was built at Nelson Street in north Belfast following an outbreak of sectarian violence. The first peace line of the Troubles came on August 15 1969, when soldiers ...

Belfast's so-called peace walls remain. But people living near them want them to come down, writes Trina Vargo.The only question is when? Over the last 15 years, the pessimists have been proved ...

Fifteen years after the Good Friday Agreement, the imposing peace lines, erected to keep Protestant and Catholic communities apart, continue to loom large over Belfast.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — When President Obama comes to Belfast, he has expected to praise a country at peace and call for walls that separate Irish Catholics and British Protestants to come ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — When President Obama comes to Belfast, he’s expected to praise a country at peace and call for walls that separate Irish Catholics and British Protestants to come ...