>”These divides have been in place for 50 years, longer than the Berlin wall”
As long as the British government continue to lend the loyalist paramilitaries their support, whether through meeting with the LCC, or providing character references to members of the UVF caught with weapons in their possession, then the other ‘peace walls’ in N Ireland will remain
>The fortifications were used as defences for early 17th century settlers from England and Scotland.
Why do we have so much trouble in actually owning our past. These walls were built to protect the invasion by England with the plantation of protestants to confiscate Irish owned land and colonise the island.
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>”These divides have been in place for 50 years, longer than the Berlin wall”
As long as the British government continue to lend the loyalist paramilitaries their support, whether through meeting with the LCC, or providing character references to members of the UVF caught with weapons in their possession, then the other ‘peace walls’ in N Ireland will remain
>The fortifications were used as defences for early 17th century settlers from England and Scotland.
Why do we have so much trouble in actually owning our past. These walls were built to protect the invasion by England with the plantation of protestants to confiscate Irish owned land and colonise the island.