Day 151 - N. Ireland III - Belfast

Irish breakfast. We've found out that this harshbrown-bread thingy is potato bread. We bid our nice host goodbye and took a cab with Sam back to Belfast city.

Every city wants a Ferris wheel? Belfast City Hall.

We went to the tourism office for recommendations about the murals. We were given a route and we set off.

how true.

Murals outside a school. Think it was done to remove the political stigma murals have.

Advertisement murals. Think it is meant to remove stigma also.

IRA memorial. In the Catholic area.

Those who gave their lives for the IRA

Irish flag flying on UK soil.

The martyrs of the hunger strike

Bobby Sands, the martyred for the independence cause

At the HQ of Sinn Féin, the pro-independence party

a non-political mural

and you thought Singapore is a fine city.

We wondered what were these walls. Thought it was a stadium. Turns out it's peace line, to demarcate the Protestants from the Catholics, a strategy to contain violence during the Troubles. Used in Iraq now also.

wondered if it was just un-maintained or an effect of the Troubles.

At the Protestant neighbourhood. Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary group that's pro-UK

Martyrs of UVF

in memory

love this mural......

especially this part. Is it always a binary?

Protestants expressing their loyalty to the Queen.

Spontaneous memorials around the corners of the road

A UK flag in the Protestant area for political posters, but an Irish flag in the Catholic area for political posters of Sinn Féin.

Memorials against violence in general, not taking any

The graffiti is very interesting. Effects of gentrification