Here’s what painting on walls used to be for
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The Clonard Martyr’s Memorial.
Behind it, green ‘peace walls’ separate Catholic and Protestant areas.
Houses along the peace wall have iron cage protection against firebombs. Today, rocks pelt them when the ‘wrong’ football team wins a match.
Though it’s much more peaceful now, the Troubles are still fresh in the collective consciousness.
The next day, an early morning black cab tour brought me face to face with the traces of Belfast’s past. Politics, aesthetics.
