The walls of Belfast in Northern Ireland are more than just brick and mortar. They are canvases for public communication, ...

I T is profoundly sad that, more than half a century after they first appeared, large so-called peace walls, some up to 25 ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

Northern Ireland's public walls have long been known for their towering murals, glorifying gunmen of the paramilitary groups that fought for decades over British rule. Street art in Belfast now lauds ...

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 ...

(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 (AP) _ More than 100 Catholic girls and their parents reached their besieged elementary school in relative peace Friday as hard-line Protestants in surrounding houses staged ...

Belfast, Northern Ireland’s capital city, is perhaps best known for the sectarian strife that took place during the era of the Troubles, and as the birthplace of the Titanic (and many other ships that ...