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In 2017, the Belfast Interface Project published a study entitled "Interface Barriers, Peacelines & Defensive Architecture" that identified 97 separate walls, barriers and interfaces in Belfast. [16] A history of the development of these structures can be found at the Peacewall Archive. [17]
Interface area is the name given in Northern Ireland to areas where segregated nationalist and unionist residential areas meet. They have been defined as "the intersection of segregated and polarised working class residential zones, in areas with a strong link between territory and ethno-political identity".
The Belfast Project was an oral history project on the Troubles based at Boston College in Massachusetts, U.S. The project began in 2000 [1] and the last interviews were concluded in 2006. [2] The interviews were intended to be released after the participants' deaths [1] and serve as a resource for future historians. Ed Moloney was the project ...
In Belfast, the 1970s were a time of rising residential segregation. [14] It was estimated in 2004 that 92.5% of public housing in Northern Ireland was divided along religious lines, with the figure rising to 98% in Belfast. [1] Self-segregation is a continuing process, despite the Northern Ireland peace process.
Since leaving the UDA, McQuiston has worked as a community activist for the Springfield Intercommunity Development Project. [3] He works alongside former IRA members in troubled interface areas near the west Belfast Peace Line where loyalists and republicans sometimes clash, especially during the annual 12 July Orange Order parades which ...
Clonard sits on the frontline of the troubles which erupted in Belfast in August 1969, located as it is, at an Interface area between the mainly Catholic Falls Road district and the mainly Protestant Shankill Road district. At the rear of the monastery was located Bombay Street and Cupar Street which led on to the Shankill Road.
Image credits: The Representation Project #3 Hedy Lamarr. Hedy Lamarr, born in Vienna in 1914, was an actress and inventor. In 1937, Lamarr escaped her controlling husband and Austria and moved ...
The Shankill Road (from Irish Seanchill, meaning 'old church' [3]) is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through the working-class, predominantly loyalist, area known as the Shankill. The road stretches westwards for about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from central Belfast and is lined, to an extent, by shops.