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Across the road from the Peace Wall on Cupar Way.

This Peace Wall was built to separate the Catholic Falls Road area from the Protestant Shankill Road area. The wall extends along Cupar Way.

Visitors to the Peace Wall are encouraged to add their own messages of support.

This Peace Wall was built to separate the Catholic Falls Road area from the Protestant Shankill Road area. The walls extends along Cupar Way.

Location is in an area where the Troubles were most prevalent. In an effort to restore peace to this area, a twenty foot high barrier was erected along Cupar Way between the Falls Road Nationalist / Republican (Catholic) area south of the barrier and the Shankill Road Unionist / Loyalist (Protestant) area north of the barrier. Cupar Way is located along, and north of, the barrier within the Shankill Area.

This Peace Wall was built to separate the Catholic Falls Road area from the Protestant Shankill Road area. The walls extends along Cupar Way.

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. The best viewing section is on the Shankill side where visitors are encouraged to add their signatures to those of the Dalai Lama and former US President Clinton. Art panels showing the area's political and cultural history have now been added to the wall along Cupar Way.

Peace line at Cupar Way in Belfast. The place is now thronged by tourists - note the cars further up (mainly taxi tours which have all stopped to let the visitors take pictures and sign the wall) and there were several coaches too further along. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/of/cupar+way+belfast for related images.

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. The best viewing section is on the Shankill side where visitors are encouraged to add their signatures to those of the Dalai Lama and former US President Clinton. Art panels showing the area's political and cultural history have now been added to the wall along Cupar Way.

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. The best viewing section is on the Shankill side where visitors are encouraged to add their signatures to those of the Dalai Lama and former US President Clinton. Art panels showing the area's political and cultural history have now been added to the wall along Cupar Way.