International Wall

This wall is situated along Falls Road. The murals here highlight the political and social issues from around the world.

Garden of Remembrance

The Garden of Remembrance is a memorial garden dedicated to the Irish Republican Army members killed during The Troubles. It is located on the Falls Road which has historically been a predominantly Irish Republican area during the conflict.

Bobby Sands

Robert Gerard Sands (1954-1981) was a member of the IRA. During his second imprisonment, the British government removed the term political prisoner yet continued to rely on closed hearings, secret evidence, and extended detention without charges in order to gain convictions against suspected IRA members. Sands started a hunger strike in protest. He won the parliamentary seat of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the 1981 by-election while in prison. Sands died less than a month later at the age of 27, without ever having taken his seat in the Commons. The reported cause of death as "self-imposed starvation" was amended to simple starvation following protests.

The mural is on the wall of the head office of Sinn Fein 

Clonard Remembers August 1969

It is a memorial to a historic moment during the Troubles where more than 150 Catholic Homes and over 275 Catholic-owned business premises were destroyed. Over 1,500 Catholic families were forced to flee their homes.

 

The wire grid protected the houses from things being thrown over the wall

The Peace Wall

Temporary peace walls were built in Belfast in the 1920s. The majority of them were built in Belfast. Its purpose was to reduce the inter-communal violence between the Unionist and the Nationalist. Since the 1990s more permanent and higher peace walls were built. 

We came to see the most prominent part of the wall which separate the Nationalist Falls Road and Unionist Shankill Road in Belfast. This wall prevented attacks and rioting between the terrace houses adjoining the roads. 

There are gates along the wall

Peace Gate Belfast

Opening hours

Bayardo Bar Memorial

 It is memorial to the victims of the Bayardo Bar attack in 1975.

Shankill Road

Shankill Road is predominantly a unionist area. Union flags and murals in honour of the Royal family remain as a reminder of the sectarian divide.

Union flags along the road