Kicking against the bricks: Belfast's peace walls

The are one of the last obstacles to normalisation of life in the North – but proving far harder to remove than they were to erect

A gate in a peace wall, built just after the IRA ceasefire in 1994, links the Protestant and Catholic communities around Alexandra Park. Picture: Press Eye

‘The Berlin Wall had to come down for Berlin to be normalised. We have normalised Belfast without taking down the walls,” says Jonny Byrne, a lecturer in politics at the University ...