The Belfast Peace Walls, known as The Belfast Peace Lines, separate catholic and protestant communities in Northern Islands Belfast. The purpose of the walls was to curb the violence steamed from the outbreak of civil unrest during the riots of 1969. The riots led to a thirty-year conflict known as the Troubles and reflect the civil rights campaign to end discrimination against Catholics and Irish nationalists.
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The memorials and tributes plaques to people killed in Belfast have now become part of a dark tourism attraction.
I despair just a bit when people ask if Northern Ireland is just the north of Ireland because that means there is a whole country they haven’t even considered travelling to. I feel like Northern Ireland can sometimes be overlooked for tourism in favour of neighbouring Ireland. Now, thanks in part to the publicity ...
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My grandfather, Gary Graham, worked in the Belfast shipyard of Harland & Wolff and one of the ships he worked on was the P&O liner Canberra (in my opinion one of the most beautiful ships to come out of Harland & Wolff). He took this picture on (I think) 28th April 1961, when Canberra was leaving Belfast for Southampton, to begin her maiden voyage. My mother would have been just 3 months old at this time. Taken on Kodachrome 35mm slide film using an Ilford Sportsman camera.
