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Peace walls of Belfast

Peace walls in Belfast: Loyalist residents of Belfast holding UK flags march past a peace line
1985: Loyalists in Belfast march past one of the peace lines separating Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods in protest against the signing of the Anglo-Irish agreement aimed at ending the Troubles Photograph: Kaveh Kazemi/Hulton Archive
Peace walls in Belfast: Youth Climbing a Dividing Wall
1988: Catholic children play along the peace wall in western Belfast separating the Catholic Falls Road and the Protestant Shankill Road Photograph: Ed Kashi/Corbis
Peace walls in Belfast: The Peace Wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1992
1992: A section of peace wall Photograph: Brendan Beirne/Rex Features
Peace walls in Belfast: A man walks his dog on the Loyalist side of one of Belfast's peace walls
October 1994: A man walks his dog on the loyalist side of the wall between the Protestant Shankill area and the Catholic district of Springfield Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/Reuters
Peace walls in Belfast: Painters whitewash over political graffiti on the Peace Wall
April 1998: Painters whitewash over political graffiti as marathon peace talks continue Photograph: Russell Boyce/Reuters
Peace walls in Belfast: Ulster Freedom Fighters logo painted on the peace divide wall, Belfast
2004: A loyalist militia's name emblazoned on a wall section Photograph: Richard Gardner/Rex Features
Peace walls in Belfast: Workmen build a new section of Belfast's peace wall
June 2006: Workmen build a new section of wall between the Shankill and Falls Road on the same day the British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, arrived at Stormont for power-sharing talks Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
Peace walls in Belfast: Peace Wall in Shankill district of Belfast
Undated: Signatures and messages of peace at Cupar Way in the Shankill district Photograph: Olivier Martel/Corbis
Peace walls in Belfast: A young boy looks out from the protestant side of the peace wall in Belfast
2007: A boy looks out from the Protestant side of the peace wall at Workman Avenue before an Orange parade Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Archive
Peace walls in Belfast: A man looks at one of three murals on the loyalist side of the peaceline
April 2009: A man looks at one of three new murals on the loyalist side. A 500m stretch through the most polarised parts of west Belfast has been transformed through an initiative by local artists Photograph: Rex Features
Peace walls in Belfast: A man looks at one of three murals on the loyalist side of the peaceline
April 2009: One of three new murals Photograph: Rex Features
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