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Bobby Sands Mural
A visit to the World Famous Murals at the International Wall to learn all about the conflict.
Ample photo opportunities.
Learn about Belfast's Dark History!
Get a local’s insight into the Troubles that divided Belfast and how they shaped the city and its street art on this intimate street art tour.
See colorful murals created by both Nationalist and Loyalist communities, including the celebrated Peace Wall, as you travel around Belfast with ease in your very own Private Transportation!
· 10 min
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Peace Wall
Visit and photograph the Peace Wall, which still divides Belfast to this very day.
Write your name and a message of hope on the Wall. Other notable signatories include U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama.
· 10 min· Admission included
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Clonard Monastery
See the beautiful Clonard Monastery and its location in the middle of no-man's land.
· Non-stop passage
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Irish Republican Army C Company Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden
Visit the Irish Republican Army C Company Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden in Bombay Street.
Learn a great deal of history and how the conflict began in 1969.
Address: Bombay Street, Clonard.
Commemorating: Fallen Volunteers of IRA 'C' Company, 2nd Battalion, Belfast Brigade, Oglaigh na hEireann. Civilian casualties from the Greater Clonard area. Deceased Republican prisoners from the Greater Clonard area 1916-1970.
Commissioned by: Greater Clonard Ex-Prisoners' Association.
Date unveiled: August 20, 2000.
Notes: Plaques in memory of all Republican prisoners from the area who have died since 1916 were unveiled on March 11, 2001. Annual commemorative march held around March 11.
· 5 min· Admission included
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International Mural Wall Divis Street
Politically Charged Street Art Murals in Northern Ireland have become symbols of Northern Ireland, depicting the region's past and present political and religious divisions.
Belfast and Derry contain arguably the most famous political murals in Europe. It is believed that almost 2,000 murals have been documented since the 1970s. In 2014, the book, The Belfast Mural Guide estimated that, in Belfast, there were approximately 300 quality murals on display, with many more in varying degrees of age and decay.
Murals commemorate, communicate and display aspects of culture and history. The themes of murals often reflect what is important to a particular community. A mural therefore exists to express an idea or message and could generally be seen as reflecting values held dear to that community.
In Irish republican areas the themes of murals can range from the 1981 Irish hunger strike, with particular emphasis on strike leader Bobby Sands; murals of international solidarity with revolutionary groups are equally common, as are those which highlight a particular issue, for example the Ballymurphy Massacre or the McGurk's Bar bombing.
In working-class unionist communities, murals are used to promote Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups such as the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force and commemorate their deceased members. However traditional themes such as William III of England and the Battle of the Boyne, the Battle of the Somme and the 36th Ulster Division are equally common.
· 10 min· Admission included
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Shankill Road
View the Loyalist UDA & UVF Murals.
See the King William of Orange Aka King Billy Mural.
Take photos.
· 10 min· Admission included
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Shankill Road
The Bayardo Bar attack took place on August 13, 1975, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), led by Brendan McFarlane, launched a bombing and shooting attack on a pub on Aberdeen Street, in the loyalist Shankill area.
IRA members claimed the pub was targeted because it was frequented by members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Four Protestant civilians and one UVF member were killed, while more than fifty were injured.
· 10 min· Admission included
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IRA Hunger Strike Murals
In Irish republican areas the themes of murals can range from the 1981 Irish hunger strike, with particular emphasis on hunger strike leader IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands.
· 10 min· Admission included
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St Peter's Cathedral
Saint Peter's Cathedral, Belfast. (Irish: Ard Eaglais Naomh Peadar) is the Roman Catholic cathedral church for the Diocese of Down and Connor, and is therefore the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor.
It is located in the Divis Street area of the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and construction began in the 1860s.
It is home to St Peter's Schola Cantorum (Choir).
· Non-stop passage
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Peace Lines
The peace lines or peace walls are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that separate predominantly Republican and Nationalist Catholic neighborhoods from predominantly Loyalist and Unionist Protestant neighborhoods.
They have been built at urban interface areas in Belfast, Derry, Portadown, and elsewhere. The stated purpose of the peace lines is to minimize inter-communal violence between Catholics (most of whom are nationalists who self-identify as Irish) and Protestants (most of whom are unionists who self-identify as British.
The peace lines range in length from a few hundred yards to over three miles (5 km). They may be made of iron, brick, and/or steel and are up to 25 feet (8 m) high.
Some have gates in them (sometimes staffed by police) that allow passage during daylight but are closed at night.
The majority of peace walls are located in Belfast, but they also exist in Derry, Portadown, and Lurgan.
· 5 min
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Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden
Commemorating: Fallen Volunteers of 'C' Company, 2nd Battalion, Belfast Brigade, Oglaigh na hEireann. Civilian casualties from the Greater Clonard area. Deceased Republican prisoners from the Greater Clonard area 1916-1970.
· 10 min· Admission included
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Loyalist Murals
Photo the armed Loyalist murals.
· 5 min· Admission included
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Bobby Sands Mural
Visit and photograph the World Famous Mural of Bobby Sands, the Leader of the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike.
· 10 min· Admission included
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Bayardo Memorial Garden
Visit the Bayardo Memorial Garden on the Loyalist Side.
· 5 min· Admission included
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IRA Belfast Brigade D Company Garden of Remembrance
Visit and photograph the IRA Belfast Brigade D Company Garden of Remembrance.
· 10 min· Admission included
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Bobby Sands Mural
See the Welcome Wall and Divis Tower where the British Army had a sniper's nest; this is the heart of the IRA's territory.
· 5 min· Admission included
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Falls Road Library
Visit the I.R.A. Heartland of the World Famous Irish Republican Catholic Nationalist Falls Road.
· 5 min· Admission included
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