Bring you the latest developments from around the wilds. With updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. Coronavirus pandemic special coverage on aljazeera. In 1998 the good friday agreement was signed brokering a peace deal between republicans and unionists in Northern Ireland. Nearly a decade later aljazeera visited belfast to explore ongoing divisions in the city. This film youre about to see was 1st broadcast in 2007. Theres not be a lot to laugh about in Northern Ireland over the last 40 years the old mantra for god and our stuff has a new twist these days the fact that its 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 Northern Ireland has been dominated by one thing the troubles and bitter 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 scotland. I think this conflict was possible but here to. Offer people who thought of my community and i think of taking the problems to the theatre and you can achieve nothing ever said by people civil rights and human rights people are dying marched on the streets im a bit in off the streets and then the british army come in. Theyre catholics and isis here actually had no basic human rights the had no full rights the had all those raids taken away from us. But in 1998 all the Political Parties signed up to the good friday agreement breaking 3 decades of deadlock it established a power sharing assembly and paved the way for the withdrawal of british troops on the disbanding of our a military group. After many false starts the assembly assumed its full power in may 2007 the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader Martin Mcguinness became 1st minister and deputy 1st minister. A lot more the law and 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 all tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives there is huge wheres the situation in very large particularly the working class truth here. Kids going to school in different schools country schooling all foreigners in school but it would just not mix. A consequence of the moves in the movie the segregation divisions were there before the war and the movies kind of fit into that and then the further segregation was continued from there so were now in a situation where theres more segregation. In years of the Peace Process and there was truly a conflict. Segregation is a fact of life fact of life and of over 35 years of trouble america and people are going to get over that very very quickly or very easily. The 1st of the socalled peace lions began as the length of the bomb was rolled out by the british army to separate the warring communities in 1969. From then on they became more common and more complex today there are believed to be 41. 00 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 wall that separates the short straw 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 start of the Peace Process. A catholic lives with his family in the shadow of the short strands war as vivid memories of what happened. There was spread. On the smaller of short straw. And. A lot of it was called the tree of the particular spot because this was seen as a formal spot on the wall was floor to time. Here will leave. The whole everyone. Destroyed. A few of our. Students and both came through the. 10. 1000 people were hurt and. Covered up so everything was very dark going. To not use. Lives with her. Place the other side of the wall the protestant side i actually moved in here in the troubles in 2000 today because. The other people in here had children. And. By the people next door. We needed people to move in here that want to freed 11 here so i. Moved in. She was at my head in the back and that was just and the allies over there. Said their manual. Talk radio h m ms. The wall here between the 2 communities has become the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the battle line of a war between 2 traditions 2 denominations where and. Them mentality still exists they nearly killed us. What can we do the police dont 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 i die rattie to command and protect us they have a sense of insecurity theyve had it for 400 years here they still feel that they need the wall to keep their foothold there and they have got away with getting their own way. 10 years from the. And they out of the government has give give give them all the time of the time they want to squash our culture our politicians have no choice but to get government 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 needs of the Wider Community is. The difficulty and as with and from your list areas or staunchly republican areas. They feel a sense of betrayal because their politicians they would never share with republicans for example. And all of a sudden in a very short period of time. They were sort of. Laughing and smiling. More politics. A lot of our news here that is a step backwards. Even today politicians in the new Northern IrelandAssembly Still locationally seem locked into their old mindset. I think. She represents the main republican party. The 1st republican to. The gulf that still exists between her and her colleagues. In this process but they are in this here. As. Future events. Subscribe to. It is this. The wall. Place. Northern irish protestants parade through the streets of belfast but this is no carnival bending on which side youre on the marching season is either celebration pool full of acacia. Or the marches the victory of the protestant king william of the Irish Catholics in 6090 was 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 partial. Especially from the problem community. Its a celebration of a battle which took place over 300 years ago about the belief. Its celebration expression of freedom expression of liberty expression for tornadoes. And something which is not on the label to american Independence Day to. The celebrations at the boston and france to the celebrations which we havent see and many other countries where people celebrate their liberty. For staunchly warless people know this im a libertarian about were against the Catholic Church basically its part of their cultural identity. And for the wider Unionist Community i think it is. A symbol of the right on to bring a lot of strong as someone else made them its a very. Hot from a catholic perspective the drums and triumphalist gestures calculated to keep all the wounds open. You have to understand where were at with a common out of a complex situation there are people here 11 and those areas that have been murdered by loyalist paramilitaries and i think that its insulting for them to have have to watch an orange tree have walked at a school bombers off loyalist paramilitaries for instance you know its its very hard for us on the street to take out. All means. The past is ever present with the boy more than 3 centuries ago. Within the last decade the. Time has not been. As. Of expression. Officially the conflict. Is over. Into the Peace Process of the sectarian ritual. As a means of distinguishing reinforcing. Towering. Famous big trees over the 66090. Year when the hate symbols chiefly irish flags go up in flames. And. Told. The. Markets. You will see a visible sign. Of foreign flags. Any flags and nice straight. Scottish flags not from a foreign country as a foreign country. But they accept. The symbolism doesnt always take the form of flag waving some of the writing on the walls that have divided Northern Ireland have been raised beyond propaganda to an art form with its roots in another country. Conflict i was asking us about 5 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 YoungPeople 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 do this such a young life being taken and i think its also transmitted into. The spheres this young people young man young woman they ask the question why. A republican who honed his talent while 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 in a Northern Ireland separation has generally become more entrenched since the end of hostilities its a remarkable act of collaboration and. With him the board. Never none because thats when the impossible tanner 15 years ago just would not be now and i would never consider the notion 10 or 15 years ago its only been a lie 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 it was all that there was censorship always deal with being with a shes no one else. Would 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 is taking place within our unfortunately my community the murals were used. I like different things. That were used to mark territory by groups and organizations through a fair channel read it by the Political Leadership of the tank. I believe that my Community Must an opportunity were here also concerned. Now the 2 men are determined to use the murals as a force for unity rather than division. Mark and dannys 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 they are so many buyers and from the People Holding people back and if those can be programmed that in my case my carcass can meet up with people from Mars Community and their fame to see if i gots a case on this one so inspired is worthwhile start to fall trying to change peoples main sets because thats where the party or success than the making. But for both men optimism unrealism finely balanced we dont know hopefully even a small part of the we can add something. To. Hope that will make or not thats what friends are thats right definitely worth a little. But whatever progress may be made at this individual level some parts in the communities are still bent on division and the moment theres a decision waiting to be implemented to him to to build a fence just a couple of miles from where we are now around to score between 2 communities we need to get to a situation where theres no more barriers 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 game 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 toy it was there before to measure but spatial for. Nearly a decade after this film 1st ad we returned to belfast to catch up with Danny Devaney hes still painting the citys walls so what is your focus on a shop well thats right across the arts there was no no toilets city where they are. You may be having a look over a chair laying towards a solo artist the problem see a projection light after strong. But a political work of danny and his nearest brother and had become. World famous but some of the canvases disappearing. In 2016 the 1st rule began to come down here and the catholic republican area of joint. Ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by 2023. 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 there at the residence to feign see if we need to be in a certain spirit when they made secure because theyre the ones you know but if you look further down the road youll say another part of the wall that was played up thats on the back of peoples homes so what does sachs what it was about this strike that more people at the minute just dont face but up there to come. Lets just go to states were the. People. Are doing is an area historically notorious for violence. Fear that these conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many to seek protection behind the law. But some residents believe that barry is not the solution to todays troubles. Where they were 1st cheap. You know a lot of people told the troubles well do you. Look at. The profile that its. All said. But they really get your 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. There is so you saw so much religion they want to be put aside as office and hes still collaborating with protestant near and asked mark of vine of the ways a star. Shall go rather than call the reimage in the shouldve called it reinvention because really outs what theyre trying to do the trying to reinvent those communities but nothing ever really help on here you know as tommy says sort of sweep it on the carpet i dont enjoy talking about him or injury or understand thoroughly whats there. As well as remembering the struggles of the past danny believes murals should reflect the communitys 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 Islands next generation. 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