remote lands by putting into the way it would be to the jeep and how that instinct help them recover from the financial crash i will continue as long as i can stand. this is a story about iceland. aging on al-jazeera. in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the good friday agreement was signed brokering a peace deal between republicans and unionists in northern ireland. nearly a decade later al-jazeera visited belfast to explore ongoing divisions in the city . the film you're about to see was first broadcast in two thousand and seven.

there's not be a lot to laugh about in northern ireland over the last forty years the old mantra for god and our stuff 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 ireland. and yet 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 has been dominated by one thing the troubles. of conflict both political and religious between those claiming to represent the predominantly catholic nationalist of those claiming to represent the main.

protestant unionists. broadly speaking the nationalist more so called republicans northern ireland to be unified with the republic of ireland while the unionists wanted to remain part of the united kingdom along with england wales and. i think. the people of my community are. taking the problems to the theatre and you can achieve nothing ever said by people civil rights and human rights people that are in marched on the streets i'm a bit in off the streets and then the british army come in. they're catholics and isis here actually had no basic human rights the had no for the rights they had all those raids taken away from. us in nineteen ninety eight all the political parties signed up to the good friday agreement breaking three decades of deadlock it established

a power sharing assembly and paved the way for the withdrawal of british troops on the disbanding of paramilitary groups. after many false starts the assembly assumed its full power in may two thousand and seven the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader martin mcguinness became first minister and deputy first minister. of what northern ireland has now is not so much peace as an absence of conflict far from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation there is partition and tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives there is huge presence. in very large particularly the working through.

kids going to school in different schools cultures scorning all foreigners in school but it would just not mix. consequence of the rules in the moves the segregation divisions were there before the law and the kind of fit into that and the further segregation was continued from there so we're now in a situation where there's more. of the peace process and there was a comfort. segregation is a fact of life of life and of over thirty five years of trouble. people are going to get over the very very quickly or very easily. the first of the so-called peace began the bomb was rolled out by the british army to separate the warring communities in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. from then on they became common and complex today there are believed to be forty

one deliberate barriers across belfast we estimate that about half of all the parents have either been there and you will have been explained. in some way. in your. most notorious burial was the one between the warring communities of protestant shanksville and catholic falls road the flash point of recent years has been the separates the short straw and isolated catholic enclave in east belfast from the surrounding protestant areas in two thousand and two it was the scene of the riots in the city since the start of the peace process.

a catholic lives with his family in the shadow of the short strands war. memories of what happened. there was spread. on the smaller of short straw. and. a lot of it because a tree the tops of this particular spot because this was seen as a formal spot on the wall was lord. jesus here will leave. the whole everyone. destroyed. of our. tribe and loot and stone from both getting through the. ten. thousand people hurt. covered up so everything was very dark going. to not just me.

but lives with her family and place the other side of the wall the protestant side i actually moved in during the troubles in two thousand today because. other people in here had children. and. by the people next door. we needed people to move in here that want to free it eleven here so i. and i moved in . she was at the head with a brick and it was just and the ally over there. talking to. the wall here between the two communities has become the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the battle line of a war between two traditions to denominations where i'm. them

mentality still exists they nearly killed us. what can we do the police don't stand up for us we did sandra people obey commands they attacked them back they went home and now. they have to be shown that we are not by ourselves that other people are. to command and protect us they have a sense of insecurity they've had it for four hundred years here they still feel that they need the wall to keep their foothold they have got away with getting their own way. ten years from the. government has give give give them all the time. time they want to squash our culture our politicians have no choice but to go. with.

the bitterness felt by the protestant majority. being compounded by the feeling that their own politicians have let them. be tribal leaders rather than statesman above the their own communities and they defended their own communities interests as opposed to looking at the broader needs of the wider community is. the difficulty and as with and from your list areas or slums we republican areas. they feel a sense of betrayal because the politicians said that they would never share with republicans for example. and all of a sudden appearance. on the receiving side laughing and smiling. a lot of our news here that is a step backwards. even today politicians in the new northern ireland assembly still locationally seem locked into their old mindset.

she represents the maine republican party. the first republican to. still exists between her. colleagues. that they are.

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northern irish protestants parade through the streets of belfast but this is no carnival bending on which side you're on the marching season is either celebration or all of the patients. for the march is the victory of the protestant king william of the irish catholics in sixty ninety is at the very core of their conviction that they are and will always remain part of the united kingdom. is very much a way of life a cultural expression of a person's a special from a problem community. it's a celebration of a bubble which took over three hundred years ago at the boy. it's celebration expression of freedom expression of liberty expression for tornadoes. and something which is not on a level to american independence day to. the celebrations of the boston and france to the celebrations which we have and see and many other countries where people

celebrate their liberty. for staunchly warless people know this i'm a libertarian about war against the catholic church this is going it's a part of the cultural identity. for the wider unionist community i think it is. a symbol of the right on to bring not a strong as someone else made them it's a very. hot from a catholic perspective the drums and triumphalist gestures calculated to keep all wounds open. you have to understand where we're really coming out of a complex situation there are people here eleven and those areas that have been murdered by loyalist paramilitaries and i think that it's insulting for them to have have to watch an orange create that a school bombers off loyalist primal trees for instance you know is that it's very hard for the state to take us. on. the past is ever

present with the boy more than three centuries ago. the. time has not been. as. of expression. officially the conflict. is. more than a decade into the peace process many of the sectarian. as a means of distinguishing.

famous big trees over the six hundred sixty ninety. one the hate symbols chiefly irish flags go up in flames. and. told. the pigment of the market. you will see a visible sign. and if

i strayed. not from a foreign country as a foreign. object the symbolism doesn't always take the form of slide waving some of the writing on the walls that have divided. have been raised beyond propaganda to an art form with its roots in another country. conflict. about five years ago by the locals i was. well into the peace process they were trying to say was future generations the individual the characters because i remember watching funerals of palestinian young people killed in the west bank and at the funerals of

a carry pictures of these people who i thought i would like to know who that person is what they represented why did they. take it and i think it's also transmitted into. the spheres is young people young men young women they ask the question why. a republican who how well serving time in the maze prison is now involved in the unlikeliest of. the son of one of the best known protestant loyalist leaders. who in the past chronicled the troubles each on his own side of the walls come together to bring a new message to the city. separation is generally become more entrenched since the end of hostilities it's a remarkable act of collaboration and. that handover. never none because that's when the impossible tanner fifteen years ago

just would not be now. i would never consider the notion ten or fifteen years will actually be an ally possible to be me a possible through the work that our people loved on the ground. as just carried on through miss out on the army which is an engagement that needs to happen at every level of society in my community the walls were used themselves through the censorship mostly with being with a she's the one else. we focus on. the images you see in our walls reflected the feeling. within our communities so we were too and we were vehicles for fear or anger or frustration was taking place within our unfortunately my community the murals were used. different things. that were used to mark territory by groups and organizations three fair channel related by the political leadership of the tank. i believe that my community missed an opportunity where

heroes are concerned. now the two men are determined 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 of the walls the virtual ones that have been erected over the decades. we met accidentally in the social many buyers and from the people holding people back and if those can be programmed that in my case my grandkids can meet up with people from mars to move them and their fame to see if i got sick a chemist was so inspired is worthwhile start to fall trying to change people's main sets because that's where the party or success than the making room. but for both men optimism unrealism finely balanced we don't know hopefully even a small part of that we can add some. to yes that's the hope that will make or not

because we're french but let's try but it's definitely worth a little. but whatever progress may be made at this individual level some parts in the communities are still bent on division at the moment there's a decision waiting to be implemented to him to build a fence just a couple of miles from where we are now around to score between two communities we need to get to a situation where there's no more barrier is being built and not only that the idea of building the barrier is considered to be unacceptable. the lesson of northern ireland is the dismantling a wall is far harder than erecting it wars are indicative not just of division but of mistrust in belfast the day the walls come down is still a long way. they wanted to straight and may get

a day reacted in the process. i am not going to justify anything else i love my country i love my culture a lot. just. the way i would do their heads as a toyota before to measure but spatial for. nearly a decade after this film first ad we returned to belfast to catch up with danny devaney he's still painting the city's walls so what is your focus on a shop well that's right across all its doors no no the toilets where they are. you may be having a look over a chair laying towards a solo artist problem see a projection light up the straw. but the political work of danny and his nearest brethren have become. i'm world famous but some of the canvases

a disappearing. in twenty sixteen the first rule began to come down here and the catholic republican area of joint. ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by twenty twenty three. the demolition of the are doing will is a symbolic milestone but not all of its structure has actually come down yet. danny meets local residents to find out why they were here at the residence don't feign see if we need to be at a certain space where they may secure because they're the ones you know but if you look further down the road you'll say another part of the wall that was put up. on the back of people's homes so what does sachs what it was about this strike that the that more people at the minute just don't face see if that article. let's just go to states were the. people.

that when the time was right. join is an area historically notorious for violence. fear that these conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many to seek protection behind the wall. but some residents believe that barry is not the solution to today's troubles for the purpose of where they were for cheap shoot up with those. you know a lot of people told the troubles with them when you work at your work look at. troubles the profile the. protection. but they really give you protection. all the sectarianism still exists the government is now attempting to give the city a new image. encouraging artists like danny to find new subjects for them. and then. to receive such as much religion they want to be put aside as office and

he's still collaborating with protestant miran asked mark of vine of the ways a strike. very good rather than call the reimage in the should've called it reinvention because really outs what they're trying to do the trying to reinvent those communities but nothing ever really hop on here you know as tommy says sort of sweep it on the carpet i don't enjoy talking about him or injury or understand thoroughly what's there. as well as remembering the struggles of the past danny believes murals should reflect the community's aspirations for a peaceful future. if the murals are changed it is because the main set of the people and whose community distances. today that painting from northern ireland's next generation.

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