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 ...

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.

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, 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 ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

The walls of the “Peace Line” started going up in 1969, intended to keep apart Belfast’s two divided communities. While these walls were erected only as a temporary measure, many have stood ...

September 26, 2019 at 2:00am BST. A PEACE wall in west Belfast has become the backdrop for a new open-air exhibition showing photos of border walls from across the globe.

Northern Ireland hopes to tear down the so-called "peace lines" of Belfast - dozens of walls of brick, steel and barbed wire that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods ...