West Belfast, Peace Wall and Clonard Monastery
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West Belfast, Peace Wall and Clonard Monastery
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 26 May 2017
One of the most prominent peace walls separates the nationalist Falls Road and unionist Shankill areas of West Belfast. Almost twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement , it is saddening to see this that this huge wall still stretches across the city to divide it. The Northern Ireland Executive has committed to the removal of this and the other peace walls by 2023 (http://www.irishtimes.com/news/robinson-and-mcguinness-want-peace-walls-down-within-10-years-1.1388183 The Irish Times); in the meantime, the wall has become something of a tourist attraction. This view is from the Loyalist side of the wall. The large church on the other side is the Catholic Clonard Monastery, just off the Falls Road.
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Image Location
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54.6001
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-5.956086