Twenty-five years after the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland, Belfast still bears the scars of decades of sectarian violence. So-called peace walls are barriers built to keep Catholic ...
Belfast’s peace walls, built during the Troubles to tamp sectarian violence, were slated to be torn down in 2023. But locals are trying to block that. Many want them preserved as war relics & public ...
Even higher walls shield a Catholic enclave in Protestant east Belfast, while the north side is carved up by dozens of smaller barriers. In this city of 650,000, roughly half Catholic and half ...
Belfast calls them “black cab tours” and they’re one of the most sought-after tourist attractions in town, equal to the museum dedicated to Belfast’s shipping industry and construction of the Titanic.
From the St. George's Market to the Titanic Museum to the City hall, there are so many great tourist sights in Beflast. Here are some do's and don'ts of visiting Belfast, Northern Ireland.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - The upper floor of Angela Clarke's neat brick townhouse looks out over two towering structures, both testament to noble ambition that went wrong. Just to the north looms ...
BELFAST -- -- BELFAST -- Lee Young, 8, and Cein Quinn, 7, live barely 200 yards apart, but they have never met, and maybe never will. Lee is Protestant, Cein a Catholic -- and their communities in ...
BELFAST, July 11 -- The upper floor of Angela Clarke's neat brick townhouse looks out over two towering structures, both testament to noble ambition that went wrong. Just to the north looms the huge ...
(AP) 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 tumbling down. Barely a ...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- With its bare-knuckle fights and bone-jarring body checks, hockey may seem an unlikely tool for promoting brotherly love. But in Belfast, a city with a long history of ...
Belfast's peace walls, built during the Troubles to tamp sectarian violence, were slated to be torn down in 2023. But locals are trying to block... Belfast locals fight to preserve peace walls built ...