Political Science, asked by smartanavi, 10 months ago

In some societies of Northern Ireland, the colonies of Protestant and Catholic communities are divided by walls. These walls are sometimes filled with graffiti as you can see here. The Irish Republican Army and British Government signed an agreement in 2005. What does the graffiti here tell about the conflict in the society?

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Answered by kritikas1775
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When one reveals that they are from Northern Ireland, the inevitable questions about the Troubles are sure to follow. Northern Ireland, a small country of just 1.8 million people, is famous, or perhaps infamous, for the Troubles. This refers to a period of civil war which began in the late 1960s and ended with what is referred to as the Good Friday Agreement, in 1998. The Troubles is a complicated topic, and it is not my intention to discuss it in any great detail here. Broadly speaking, the Troubles took place because one part of Northern Irish society, the part that generally identified itself as Irish, Catholic, Nationalist, Republican or a combination of the four, felt oppressed by the other, the part that generally identified itself as British, Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist or a combination. This oppression was felt economically, politically and culturally and resulted in a civil rights movement, which was met with aggression, and these tensions ultimately escalated into three decades of conflict. 1972 was the bloodiest year of the Troubles when just short of 500 people, largely civilians were killed.

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Answered by skyfall63
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The peace walls are a "series" of "separation barriers" in "Northern Ireland" which separate predominantly republican and nationalist Catholic neighbourhoods from predominantly loyalist and unionist Protestant neighbourhoods. They have been built  to minimise inter-communal violence between Catholics & Protestants.

Explanation:

  • In the seventies, the British govt started to "build walls"  known as peace walls to divide Catholics and Protestants, across Northern Ireland in an effort to monitor sectarian conflict.
  • The walls were built as temporary, which enabled to ease tensions  & reduce the attacks between the local communities. Several residents today still want these walls to remain.  

Meaning of the Graffiti

  • Those menacing words are a "stark", "unapologetically" racist expression of the "xenophobia" several "immigrant communities" in Britain faced after WWII. It is often assumed that "signs" bearing these slogan were "commonplace" in "shop-windows" decades ago. These shop had refused to serve "coloured people" as this would upset or jeopardise their business.
  • The other graffiti represents the situation that had prevailed after the peace walls were built. The initial peace lines of "the Troubles" era were constructed in the year 1969, following the out-break of "civil unrest" &  the "1969 Northern Ireland riots". After that in Belfast people did not believe in racism, bigotry,  or prejudice and hence in reply to the signs placed in London shop-windows, they placed another sign in their shop windows to show their stand against racism/bigotry. In that year there were many racists attacks against immigrants specially.  Belfast stood in solidarity condemning such attacks

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