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in 1998 The Good Friday agreement was signed a peace deal between Republicans and unionists in Northern Ireland Al Jazeera visited Belfast to explore ongoing divisions in the city the film you're about to see was fast food cost in 2007 there's no train allowed to laugh about in Northern Ireland over the last 40 years the old Mantra forgot and I'll step has a new twist these days the fact that it's now possible to make a joke about it is a sign of The Changing Times in Northern aliens in many respects Belfast the capital of Northern Ireland remains a divided City the physical evidence is there for all to see the modern history of Northern Ireland is being dominated by one thing the troubles violence Pizza conflict post political and religious Lowe's claiming to represent the predominantly Catholic nationalist those claiming to represent the mainly protestant unionists who's making the Nationalist also called Republicans want Rhode Island to be unified with the Republic of Ireland while the unionist wanted to remind part of the United Kingdom along with England Wales and Scotland well I think it's conflict was Prince Way by Hitler good loving people you to remind me to buy I think it's taken a Publican studio lights up if you could you going to cheat in Hoffman Estates, beating off the streets and then the bed Sonic Cannon that topics and Isis here actually had no basic human rights the hard move right to had all those rights taken away from them boxing 1990 Northern Ireland's political parties signed up to the Good Friday agreement breaking three decades of Deadlock established a power-sharing assembly and pay the way for the withdrawal of British troops responding a paramilitary groups not too many. The assembly assumed its full power in May 2007 and the sworn enemies of yesterday Union Lita Ian Paisley on the Republican leader Martin McGinnis became first Minister and Deputy first minister but what model island has now is not so much peace as an apps conflict bar from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation that is partition level 10 put stalemate of separate identities and separated lives this huge bags of segregation in daily life specifically within working house communities kids go to school in different School in Catholic School in Edison school that's the consequence of the wolves in the woods the segregation the divisions were there before the rules happen the most kind of fit into that and then the feather segregation is continued from them so we now in a situation where this motorcycle keishin Chelsea News of the peace protest in there was during the complaints segregation of fact of life strike of life whenever with 35 years of trouble on Mayhem and people aren't going to get over. Very very correct Easley the first of the so-called peace lines began as a mink the pump wire rolled out by the British army the separate the warring communities in 1969 then all they became more common and more complex today that I believed to be 41 deliberate Paris across Belfast the estimate that about half of all the power is held by the bean built and you will have been extended to acknowledge. Heightened in some way over also can you have most notorious pirate was the one between the warring communities of protestant shankill and Catholic. Road but the flash point of recent years is the wall that separates the short Strand and isolated Catholic Enclave in East Belfast from the surrounding Protestant areas in 2002 it was the scene of the worst riots in the city since the stuff what's at the peace process Sean McVay a Catholic lives with his family in the shadow of the short strand war and has Vivid memories of what happened there was widespread Ridin on the tax on the small Oreo short strong they spell fuss and Malibu salad with concentrated just at this particular spot because that's what and has a possible spot in the wall with no what the time the hours of Shelby love the whole lives every window Upstairs Downstairs for some ice destroyed Georgia power to red stones evolve getting from Over the lawn but does not a broken are there are a dozen ever hate everybody doctor again Sam's out yesterday that was Greta Albert lives with her family on clue and place the other side of the world call Justin side I actually moved in today because some other people in here had children Elmer elderly and the what could I buy the people next door and we need to pay for you to move in together went to Fred's 11 Harris white tops Tex and I moved in tomato she was at the head with a break and I was just in the alley over there just sitting there minding my own business but Taco by Toby Jones the war between the two communities has become the focal point of this conflict this is all the spot between neighbor what's the title line of a war between two Traditions two denominations where an us and them mentality still exist what what can we do stand up for us and we did Sandra people bake and then they attacked them back they went oh my not that's at Freddy's they have to be showing that we're not by our sales at that other people are there are ready to come in and attacked they have a sense of insecurity is here they still think that they need to wall to keep their trucks hold and Ireland they have got away with getting their own way for the last 10 years from the deceased Farm I need a house that the government has give give give them all the time all the time they want the squash our culture our politicians have notes what to do when the government with murderers jailbirds all swords the bitterness felt by the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland is being compounded by the feeling but there are politicians have let them down revive Tech need to be tribal leaders rather than Statesman about to be their own communities and they defended their own communities interests as opposed to looking at the board approve the needs of the why the community is difficult again is within Stonestreet loyalist areas or Suntree Republican areas whereby they feel a sense of betrayal because they're politicians said that they would never share far which Republicans for example and all of a sudden in a brochure what time I dated was done and they were sitting side-by-side laughing and smiling to me that's normal politics but a lot of our communities here that is a step backward even today politicians in the new Northern Ireland assembly still occasionally seem locked into their old mindsets look up the Republican ministers administering British law British crime for sale so I did logically I think Republicans know but they actually all star war on what they have to do is me come to terms with them Jennifer McCann is a member for the Northern Ireland assembly in West Belfast resents the main Republican party Sinn Fein under a mineral of Bobby Sands the first Republican to die on hunger strike in prison she points out the gulf that still exists between her and her Protestant call I don't think Republicans were ever defeated I'm starting the I think that the tally want any Republican that I know that it is in this process and everything else that they are taking this here to there and the info on the Republican might be 14 years of age Hyundai 47 years of age I still a republican I still. My long term United Ireland of future events to the Protestants type two things that they're going to get this as hard as United Ireland and they'll be another War before that ever happens it is this absence of trust dating back centuries that is kept Lowe's of Belfast in place it's not the first time the walls of a dolphin Island in all of the Thunder for 400 years you know and walls aren't just a Delta printing border I'm going to be both legislation and laws and general practice there also I think we'll have to pay at the end of build the walls Prejudice April 1st putting tint on the physical wall Channel golden Irish Protestants parade through the streets of Belfast but this is no Carnival depending on which Niger on the marching season is either celebration or a provocation for the matches the big tree of the Protestant King William of the Irish Catholics in 60-90 is at the very core and conviction that they are and will always remain part of the United Kingdom what rating is very much a way of life a cultural expression of a person's a down today especially, probably some kind of way that's a celebration for us to play a super 300 years ago up at the bowling alley on the excelebration expression freedom of expression of Liberty from expression fraternity something with I want to leave it to American Independence Day to the celebrations at the Bastille in France to the celebrations which we have when seeing and many other countries were people celebrate their Liberty for storms Wireless Bear symbol of the victory in the battle against the Catholic Church basically it's part of their cultural identity for The Wider Union is coming today I think it is a symbol of the right onto me although not as strong as some Wireless making it today open we are only coming out of a complex situation there are people who are 11 and those areas that have been murdered by Lawless Pamela trees and I think it's insulting for them to have to want to know each. Walk by Middle School in Bonners why does pineapple juice man C knows that it's very hard for Verizon and see to take a on those sites the past is ever-present whether it's the battle of the Boyne more than three centuries ago Rugrats with in the last decade for those on the front line time has not being a Healer here the conflict has mainly found other means of expression officially the conflict in Northern Ireland is over more than a decade into the peace process many of the secretary and rituals live on as a means of distinguishing reinforcing boasting and on the 12th night of every July towering bumfuzzle it by protestantism to knock that famous victories over the Catholics in 1690 crowds cheer when the hate symbols chiefly Irish Flags go up in flames April is always a professional thing with Lawless right back to what I was in the sexiest when he was young camouflage to Martha territory of the girl in the original artist for you know so if you come back here in a couple of weeks time you will see visible signs from the church drowned with national foreign Flags any flags and my street are British flag Northern Ireland flag Scottish Flags foreign country there is a foreign country they fly the trailer but they accept the British money gospel symbolism doesn't always take the form of flag waving some of the writing on the walls that have divided Northern Ireland I've been raised Beyond crude propaganda to an art form will it snow in another country another conflict I was 5 years ago by the local Wayland to the peace process but I think what they were trying to say was that future Generations know about the individual characters in this Grill cuz I have my bird watching funerals of Palestinian young people killed in the West Bank at the funerals of a k pictures of these people I thought I would like to know who that person what they represented by the date I buy this young life being taken and I think it's also transmitted into these type of meals from people look at these faces young people young man young women they asked the question why what was it a bike Danny deveny a republican who hold his talent Wild time in the Maze prison is now involved in the end like this about tistic collaborations he sped up with the son of one of Northern Ireland's best-known Protestant loyalist leaders the two men in the past play Cold the troubles each on his own side of the walls of him together to bring a new message to the city in a separation is generally become more entrenched since the end of hostilities remarkable Act of collaboration and hope it's absolutely just wouldn't I would never Act there's an option 10 or 15 years ago that's only being alive possible to be made possible through the work at all or people of done on the ground it's just carried on through the South End dummy which is an engagement that needs to happen at every level of society ladies wallets for you since all the TV censorship what was the Davis team that they she's in the one else and asked me what the images you should a narwhals reflected what's on our communities deliver vehicles for fear or anger or frustration to see if this was an Oculus or different things silver used to mark by groups and organizations are generated by political leadership of the Tang I believe that my community missed an opportunity for murals or now the two Bandits how to use the murals as a force for Unity rather than division Mark and Danny's hope is that their own writings on the wall May dismantle those other walls the virtual ones that have been erected the decades we might accidentally back and as soon as can be broken time than my kids my grandkids can meet up with people from Mars come inside and outside I got the key and it's morsels buyers once was won't start to fall box for Bozeman optimism realism finally balanced we don't know but hopefully you can small part of that that we can add something to it. Yeah that's right but it's worth definitely worth it though but whatever progress baby made at this individual level some parts in the communities are still bent on division decision waiting to be in Comanche twin to to build a fence just a couple of miles to where we on now around the school in between two communities we need to get to a situation where this letter Mulberry is being built and not only that the the idea of building a barrier is considered should be unacceptable that erecting it just vision of mistrust in Bellflower the day the Wolves comes out it's still a long way off they won't get that straight and they didn't get it but they wrecked it in the process I'm not going to justify a lie I love my country I love my culture and not lost and what is amen the way I would do as a Toyota Tacoma for Magic Evony he still painting the city schools we will be home in a couple problem c a p Jackson that's what's wrong and he had become world famous butts in 26 the first began to come down here and the Catholic Republican area ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by 2023 the demolition of the All Join rule is a simple Milestone but not all of its structure has actually come down yet Donny meets local residents to find out why a certain speed when they need secure did you walk further down the road yesterday another part of the wall under the back of people's home so it is  and wall what it was and strengthen them up more people at the Met Buffet City of Port Arthur to come down what's the score of the standings for the protector came someone come out and say I do 80% of people want the Bulls tonight but when the time is right dirty notorious for violence did these conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many to seek protection behind the rules but some residents believe that Barry is not the solution for today's troubles the world episode where they referred shoot drive by shooting some things at the Hop that those games and a lot of people told us to the track this much trouble is it prevented we got the money want Wilson protection to me on the other side in front of it then it didn't really give you potassium you image encourage artists like Daddy to find new subject for that miracles identify quickly understood what they were saying it's not supposed to be a midget they wanted to meet us should have called it reinvention because really that's what they're trying to do you're trying to reinvent those communities but nothing ever really how I'm here to know and as Donnie says so to sweep it on the apartment I don't enjoy looking at that and Raintree as well as remembering the struggles of the past Danny believes murals should reflect the communities aspirations for peaceful future if the mirrors are changing it because the mindset of the people and Jewish communities repent the CNC Next Generation I think it's our foremost ready to be part of the solution were using talents for letting us out they are to try and play Star kenshiro struggle and politics and 78 Converse All 3 dialogue then why choose another route

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