Falls Road and surrounding
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"So the particular judgement might be set:Bare wallstead and a cold hearth rained into—Bright puddle where the soul-free cloud-life roams." ~Seamus Heaney, Lightening The Falls Road and Shankill Road communities are traditionally Catholic and Protestant streets that are divided by an 18-foot-high “Peace wall”—the largest of several walls built in other communities in Belfast, Derry, and Portadown. While they were originally intended to prevent conflict between communities, it is now questionable if they should remain standing post-peace accords. This is the Catholic Nationalist side of the peacewalls known as "the Falls." |
Shankill Road and surrounding community |
“When you’re rolling down the Shankill with your lily in your hand…when the band begins to play ‘kick the Pope’ and ‘Dolly’s Brae’, Och it’s lovely rolling down the Shankill.” ~Seamus Heaney, Roamnin’ in the Gloamin’ This is the Protestant Unionist side of the peacewalls known as "the Shankill." |
Consulate of the United States
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“Keep your eye clear as the bleb of the icicle, trust the feel of what nubbed treasure your hands have known.” ~Seamus Heaney, North The U.S. Consulate in Northern Ireland is the 2nd largest U.S. consulate in the world. It was built in 1865 after the American Civil War. There are 1.7 million people living in Northern Ireland and 500,000 in Belfast today. |
Relatives for Justice |
“Who’s sorry four our trouble? Who dreamt that we might dwell among ourselves in rain and scoured light and wind-dried stones? Basalt, blood, water, headstones, leeches…” ~Seamus Heaney, After a Killing This organization was founded by Mark Thompson, the founding member and director, back in 1991. The group serves over 3,000 individuals a year through counseling support, welfare support, and legal advocacy for victims and survivors of the Troubles. Their mission is to seek, "truth, justice, and accountability." |
Crumlin Road Gaol |
“A great man in his pride confronting murderous men casts derisions upon supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone—Man has created death.”~W.B. Yeats, Death This Belfast prison was opened back in 1845 for the first time and was closed as the period known as, "the Troubles," was coming to a close in 1996. This prison is known for it's high profile incarcerates from the Loyalist and Republican background. One notable prisoner, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuiness, was one of the sponsors who initiated the revitalization of the prison into a museum. |
174 Trust |
“Weren’t we all chums? Did we understand him and didn’t he understand us? Did we imagine for an instant that he’d shoot us for all the so-and-so officers in the so-and-so British Army?”~Frank O’Connor, Guests of a Nation This non-denominational center is a community-based organization that facilitates community projects. Over 30,000 come to the site annually to experience the concerts, as well as other artistic showcases. Its location is in an area of Belfast known as "Murder Mile" where 20 percent of all documented murders occurred during the Troubles. The organization's mantra is, "Building Peace Promoting Reconciliation." |
Clonard Monastary
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“It was a day of cold Raw silence, wind-blown Surplice and soutane: Rained-on, flower-laden Coffin after coffin, Seemed to float from the door,Of the packed cathedral. Like blossoms on slow water.” ~Seamus Heaney, Casualty This cathedral was founded in 1732 and was designed with specific intention to aid people on the edge of society. Through the troubles, this church was a meeting ground for much of the underground and open peace talks, facilitated by the priest and peace worker Alec Reid.
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Skainos East Belfast Mission
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“But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of... fact.” ~ Brian Friel, Translations Located in East Belfast, this center is dedicated to bringing together opposing communities through providing a cross-cultural meeting spaces along with cultural, health, housing, and employment services.
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Police Service of Northern Ireland
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"The innocent in gaols The PSNI was formed was in 2001 succeeding the former Royal Ulster Constabulary police force. The majority of PSNI today are Ulster Protestants, but 29.7 percent of all officers as of 20111 were from Catholic Communities. |
Peace Players International
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"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children." ~ Bobby Sands This after-school organization brings together children from schools in districts that are considered highly sectarian. The organization seeks to teach children new sports like basketball which have no sectarian sway to participation while teaching children sports that are associated with "the other side" to try to abridge sectarianism. |
BelfastCity Hall
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"Beflast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future." ~James Nesbitt This building is located right in the heart of Belfast housing the Lord Mayor of the city and facilitating metropolitan affairs. |
Kilmainham Gaol |
“MacDonagh and MacBride and Connolly and Pearse…wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” ~William Butler Yeats, Easter,1916 This was the location where those participating the Irish Citizen Army in the Easter Rising revolt of 1916 were incarcerated and executed. The revolt was an effort by the Irish Citizen Army against the British government in demand for an Irish Free State that went on for six days. It was buildt in 1796 designed as the "New Goal" with new techniques of solitary confinement and hopes of rehabilitation of the prisoners. However, the potato famine soon made the prisons conditions overcrowded and disease infested. |
Stormont Estate |
“Even the night sky seemed vague, as the smoke rifted across the starlight, and I imagined the living rats that remained, breathing their vengeance in a dull miasmic unison deep underground.” ~Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark This building houses the government of Northern Ireland. It is the center of many government agencies including the parliament along with the offices of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. During the Troubles, the building was unoccupied for the parliamentary body was dissolved indefinitely during the period of conflict. |