Segregation in Northern Ireland is a long-running issue in the political and social history of Northern Ireland. The segregation involves Northern Ireland's two main voting blocs—Irish nationalist/rep
A 5.5 metres (18 ft) high "peace line" along Springmartin Road in Belfast, with a fortified police station at one end
Back of a house behind a "peace line", on Bombay Street, Belfast
Apartheid signs trainstation
The Troubles
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The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in
Segregation in Northern Ireland
…blocs—Irish nationalist/republicans (mainly Roman Catholic) and unionist/loyalist (mainly Protestant). It is often seen as both a cause and effect of the "Troubles". A combination of political, religious and social differences plus the threat of intercommunal tensions and violence has led to widespread self-segregation…
The Battle of the Boyne (12 July 1690) by Jan van Huchtenburg
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Protestant demonstrators burning an effigy of Daniel O’Connell, an incident that sparked the Belfast riots of 1864[self-published source?]
The Ulster Covenant was issued in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill in September 1912.
Sir James Craig, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, who said, "All I boast is that we are a Protestant Parliament and Protestant State"