"The_Divide",_Ardoyne_Road,_Belfast_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1461300.jpg
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Description "The Divide", Ardoyne Road, Belfast - geograph.org.uk - 1461300.jpg |
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"The Divide", Ardoyne Road, Belfast This is one of the most sudden and certainly one of the most contentious religious divides in Northern Ireland. In the 1960s the whole Ardoyne was a mixed area which was viewed as one step above the slums and terraces of the Shankill.
Although Protestants and Roman Catholics lived side by side as neighbours - everyone knew who was on whose side. When the conflict fired up in 1969 - suspicion arose and Protestants moved towards the northern end of the Ardoyne, towards Ballysillan which was established as Protestant. Roman Catholics, on the contrary, moved towards the Ardoyne roundabout and the Holy Cross Chapel. This shift eventually caused an imaginary line between Alliance Avenue and Glenbryn Park. The continual violence here prompted the construction of a Peace Wall. Thankfully there has been a marked decrease in sectarian violence here since the 2001 Holy Cross dispute. This is taken from the Protestant 'Upper Ardoyne' looking towards the Roman Catholic area - which begins roughly where the Peugeot 106 is emerging. |
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Author | Dean Molyneaux |
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Dean Molyneaux / "The Divide", Ardoyne Road, Belfast |
Camera location | 54° 37′ 05″ N, 5° 58′ 01″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 54.618030; -5.966900 |
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Object location | 54° 37′ 03″ N, 5° 58′ 00″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 54.617490; -5.966700 |
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