Belfast, Northern Ireland Murals and Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly checks out the Political murals in Belfast - A travel guide to Belfast and Northern Ireland.
Europe 2019 (Pt. 73) - Black Cab Tour of the Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
August 14, 2019 - The Troubles is putting it lightly. This low-level war was waged from 1969 to 1998 between the Irish Republican Army and the United Kingdom, and Belfast was ground zero. The Troubles stemmed from many causes, but one large one was the British colonization of Northern Ireland (thus making it part of the UK), and the Irish resistance to this, for a unified nation on the Isle of Ireland.
Much is made of the Troubles being a war between the Catholics and Protestants, but this is not the case; it just so happened to be that most from the United Kingdom were Protestant, whereas most of the Irish were Catholic.
Over 20 years have passed, and even though it's not nearly as heated as it once was, with clashes and bombings and the like, there is still tension in the air, particularly in the districts of town where you can find the ever-changing murals, the Peace Wall, the Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden, Sinn Féin office, and the gates between the Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods of Belfast, JUST IN CASE.
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Northern Ireland's Troubles - Walls of Shame
The modern history of Northern Ireland has been dominated by one thing, 'The Troubles' - a violent, bitter conflict, both political and religious, between those claiming to represent the predominantly Catholic nationalists and those claiming to represent the mainly Protestant unionists.
But what Northern Ireland has now is not so much 'peace' as 'an absence of conflict' after the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998. Far from disappearing, the walls have grown. Instead of reconciliation, there is partition - an ill-tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives.
Broadly speaking, the nationalists - also called 'Republicans' - want Northern Ireland to be unified with the Republic of Ireland while the unionists want it to remain part of the United Kingdom, along with England, Wales and Scotland.
This episode of the Walls of Shame series looks at life on both sides of the barriers between the warring communities.
Update: Al Jazeera returned to Belfast, almost a decade after this film first aired in 2007, to touch base with Catholic muralist Danny Devenny. As the walls of separation - or 'protection' as some view the barriers - start to come down, much of Danny and his muralist friends' work is also being destroyed, with calls to 'reimagine' their art.
The government has vowed to destroy the walls but the community is reluctant, scared and not appreciative of attempts to gloss over a difficult past.
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N. Ireland - Giant's Causeway & Black Taxi Tour in Belfast
Each time I travel a theme appears out of the experience in new and insightful ways that I never expected. Taking a day tour to Giant's Causeway and Belfast in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom was an amazing experience. I really learned a lot about conflict resolution and brought some new thoughts home to my life and legal practice. Travel broadens your mind, helps with creative problem solving, and makes you a better person in so many ways!
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Belfast and the Best of Northern Ireland
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | We start in bustling Belfast's City Hall and Ulster Museum, then head out to Northern Ireland's favorite resort: Portrush, along the Antrim Coast, where we taste-test Irish whiskey, scramble over some six-sided geology in the Giant's Causeway, drop in on a world-class golf course, and stomp our feet to some traditional music.
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2018.04.27 - Northern Ireland - Belfast - Mural Tour - British Side
A Walk Around Belfast City - A gentle walk around Belfast City. A great city to chill in & explore.
Belfast City - A walk around Belfast city to explore its hidden gems...
Visit Belfast for some excellent sightseeing and sample great Belfast pubs, shopping and attractions. In Belfast city centre you will find the City Hall, restaurants, shopping and roads leading to city attractions such as Queens University. Belfast is a great city to walk around.
Being the Capital city of Northern Ireland means that there are lots of different things to be explored in this city and it is of course one of the most visited cities in Northern Ireland as well. Whether it is about the shopping places and centers or else about the museums and old historical places, there are always what you will fall in love with in Belfast, and most importantly, walking around this city is a recommended option.
Walking through the city, you might be searching for those best bars which you want to have a drink at ( you might be looking for those best restaurants which you could be offered with delicious food at ( and you might be one of those coffee lovers who will be searching for the best cafes in Belfast that one could enjoy coffee, brunch, or even get served with a yummy dessert (
Another part of walking around Belfast city and trying to explore it is going to check those historical places and buildings which will tell you more about the city. There are lots of landmarks for this city which one should pass by - even just walking beside it and taking some pictures - such as the case with the famous Europa Hotel. There is also the Grand Opera House where one could book a performance while being in the city and enjoy an Irish cultural night.
The list for those different places is long, because moving past the Grand Opera House, there is the famous City Hall building ( which is one of the most famous touristic places in Belfast and which you are allowed to get inside and inspect the whole thing as well as the garden outside in which there is a memorial for the victims of Titanic.
Walking around Belfast and exploring all the corners of this beautiful city, we have passed by famous streets, crucial shopping centers like the Victoria Square Shopping Centre which is considered the most famous in Belfast, and we even passed by Castle Court which is another important shopping centre to be found in the city.
The Commercial Court in Belfast is one of those places which are usually recommended for visitors for the different restaurants, bars, cafes, and even hotels which it hosts, and not just that, but it is also one of the places where lots of those old buildings and even bars are located - you will definitely enjoy a walk there and exploring all the beautiful things regarding this place ( The Commercial Court is found inside a place known as the Cathedral Quarter which is also one important spot to discover because it is located in Belfast's City Centre and invites lots of people to it (
We have to say that one of the best things about Belfast in Northern Ireland is the fact that most of the touristic attractions are located next to one another and within a walking distance and this allows for enjoying the scenery of walking the streets while going from one place to the other (
From the other recommended places to visit and the different things which one could actually do in Belfast, there is the famous Titanic Quarter and this goes back to Belfast being the home place for Titanic and the place it was built in ( there is also the Crumlin Road Goal ( there is Narnia & CS Lewis Square that is located in Belfast as well ( and the famous Belfast Castle (
These are not the only attractions to be visited in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but there are also those parks which are scattered all around the country and one of the most famous of them all is known as The Botanic Gardens ( which is near the city centre of Belfast, and this is actually making it one of the most famous.
One of the interesting things which we should mention about Belfast and walking through its streets is the graffiti or the murals which are found across the streets on the different walls of the buildings - this is one of the most interesting parts of our trip when we are walking the streets of Belfast - we get to see lots and lots of things.
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Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom. The country is known for its Norman castles, glacial valleys and mountains, Celtic and Christian monuments, and coastal links golf courses. Capital city Belfast is home to the political murals of the 20th-century ‘Troubles’ conflict, and the Titanic Quarter, showcasing the redeveloped dockyards where the famous ship was built and a contemporary museum, Titanic Belfast.
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Belfast is Northern Ireland’s capital. It was the birthplace of the RMS Titanic, which famously struck an iceberg and sunk in 1912. This legacy is recalled in the renovated dockyards' Titanic Quarter, which includes the Titanic Belfast, an aluminium-clad museum reminiscent of a ship’s hull, as well as shipbuilder Harland & Wolff’s Drawing Offices and the Titanic Slipways, which now host open-air concerts.
Belfast Mural Tour---Peace Wall
John, a taxi driver and native of Belfast, gave us a fascinating tour of the formerly war-torn areas of Shankill and Falls Roads in Northern Ireland on April 1, 2012. John was actually a native of the Shankill area and even showed us where he grew up. Buildings in this area are painted with elaborate murals supporting each side of the conflict. In this video, John is showing us a Peace Wall, which separates the conflicted areas. For more info:
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Scattered throughout the countryside of #Belfast, you’ll find Iron Age forts, medieval castles, and more modern construction dating to the 20th century. Belfast got on the fast track to modernizing in the 19th century, when it became known as a shipbuilding mecca. Among the famous vessels built at Belfast through the decades are the RMS Titanic and its sister ships, Olympic and Britannic.
A great deal of Belfast’s modern identity stems from over three decades of political and religious strife. These issues have influenced much of the city’s public art, as a great number of murals and statues depict people and events from those times.
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Belfast In Your Pocket - Falls Road with the Lord Mayor of Belfast
Tom Hartley, the Lord Mayor of Belfast gives an impromptu tour of the Republican murals around Falls Road. Tom Hartley is the second Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast and councillor of the Falls Road constituency.
We bumped into him by accident and he gave us a passionate tour of the neighbourhood whoch was better known for the Troubles at the end of the last century.
For more on sights, hotels and restaurants in Belfast check out Belfast In Your Pocket
Belfast Mural Tour---Peace Wall
John, a taxi driver and native of Belfast, gave us a fascinating tour of the formerly war-torn areas of Shankill and Falls Roads in Northern Ireland on April 1, 2012. John was actually a native of the Shankill area and even showed us where he grew up. Buildings in this area are painted with elaborate murals supporting each side of the conflict. In this video, John is showing us a Peace Wall, which separates the conflicted areas. For more info:
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Peace Wall in Belfast Northern Ireland - Belfast Tour
Are you ready to leave your print behind before leaving Belfast, Northern Ireland? To do so, you will not just write down your signature on the wall, but you will be also visiting the Peace Wall in Belfast which is one of the most visited art places in the city (
Even though walking by the Peace Wall in Belfast will mean walking by lots of murals and graffiti work that will catch your breath away and which might be the reason why lots of people come to check the wall in the first place, we still have to mention that this was not the main purpose of building this long wall; it was not built for drawings but it was built for separating two different groups of people from one another.
They are referred to as peace walls and not just wall because they are found in different other cities and not just Belfast - our trip this time was at Belfast only and that's why - which are Derry, Portadown, and Lurgan (
Going back in history, the main purpose behind building this peace wall was to act like separation barriers that will separate the predominantly Republican and Nationalist Catholic neighborhoods from the predominantly Loyalist and Unionist Protestant neighborhoods. This wall was actually to minimize the inter-communal violence between the Catholics who are mostly known to be Irish and the Protestants who are mostly known to be British, and that took us to the beginning of the journey of drawing on this long wall and giving people the chance to bring out their talents.
When you come to the point where you will start asking people on the internet or even those of your friends who have been to Northern Ireland before about the places you should visit while being in Belfast, one of the answers would be the peace wall and even though they might go for the main purpose of checking the murals there, you should also be willing to know more about the history of building that wall in the first place.
The majority of these walls are located in Belfast and that might be the reason why they always refer to it as the peace wall in Belfast. There are some doors in these walls that allow the entrance from one side to the other but they are not always open, they are usually open during the daylight and close once again during the night, and they sometimes have policemen standing and guarding on them.
This wall was actually built a long time ago, back in 1969, during the time of The Troubles and the outbreak of the Northern Ireland riots. The interesting thing is that this wall was actually built back at that time as a temporary thing, but since it managed to bring the right effects, it started to get longer, taller, wider, and more permanent and the six months' plan was then forgotten.
Those walls which were 18 back when the whole thing started have reached 59 in the end of 2017 and they stretch for over 120 miles with most of these walls being in Belfast. With the different murals which are now covering up these walls, there are taxis that tend to take tourists to the most famous ones and even point out some of the most important places when it comes to the history of this wall, like pointing out the trouble spots, and tourists tend to enjoy such a ride because they love watching those murals and sometimes listening to the stories behind them as well.
At some point in 2008 there was a discussion about how and when should these walls be removed and even though some people were looking forward to such a step in the history of Northern Ireland, there were lots of others who believed that these walls are still needed and still considered beneficial because they will ban any kind of violence that might take place and thus all these discussions and plans died with the passage of time and with those thoughts that the residents carried.
Since the peace wall is one of the most important locations in Northern Ireland tourism and one of the things to do in Belfast, Michelle decided to go there and sign her name on one of these walls among one of the murals which are drawn and which allow people to leave their names as remembrance of walking by this wall.
There are actually lots of beautiful places in Belfast, Northern Ireland, that we could include in the list of places to be visited in addition to walking by the peace wall and it might be about wandering the streets of the city in general ( choosing one of the bars or restaurants to enjoy a drink or a meal at ( or going a bit cultural and historic to visit those touristic locations that include the City Hall, museums, and other beneficial places.
This was a good experience to write down Michelle's name on the peace wall; looking forward to it?
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N. Ireland Day 5: Streets of Belfast
Thought it would be a good idea to search for the famous Belfast murals that speak more than words about the political climate in Northern Ireland. The murals are symbols of the past and present, so the streets still stand divided. The violence may have stopped, but the emotions that have driven The Troubles are very much alive. Peace has been made, but walls still stand. I found most of the nationalist murals (pro-Ireland), depicting political prisoners, heroes who've died fighting for their cause, and global icons of a campaign against oppression. For them, there are no calls for peace if peace means giving up. On the unionist side (pro-England), murals depict peace, and a call for cooperation. To this day, Northern Ireland belongs to the U.K.