The walls of Belfast in Northern Ireland are more than just brick and mortar. They are canvases for public communication, reflecting the city's history of conflict and its ongoing journey toward peace ...
Belfast, with about 350,000 residents, is Ireland’s second-largest city, considerably smaller than Dublin (population 550,000), about 100 miles south. The main downtown tourist zone in Belfast is ...
For years in Northern Ireland, walls have talked through words and images. Even after the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 brought an end to the three decades of sectarian strife known as the Troubles, ...
Once they were threatening symbols of paramilitary control, but now Belfast’s murals have new themes, as Jamie McDowell and Kerry McKittrick discover As the heat of the Troubles lessened in the ...
In Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, hundreds of colorful murals line the city's streets, detailing a century's worth of conflict and political division. While some of Belfast's political ...