Gordon McDade is showing me around the garden of a youth center he runs in Belfast. The center straddles the local Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods with a peace wall that runs right through ...

The neighborhood residents were worried ... works to remove some of the peace walls in Belfast on March 15, 2023. It took more than a decade to replace the wall on Flax Street (in the background ...

A few weeks ago, some 4,600 miles from Austin, I walked through a divided city where the government locks the neighborhood gates at night. Imposing barriers called “peace walls” are topped ...

Temporary barricades which were thrown up amid the violence hardened into permanent lines of demarcation: the so-called peace walls which still divide Belfast’s streets to this day. One of the ...

Belfast, with about 350,000 ... the British Army installed the first “peace walls” in 1969, separating Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods. Some are still in use today, with gates that ...