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Across the Barricades-Women in conflict

By Yellow Umbrella Tours Limited
Free cancellation available
Price is $27 per adult
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  • 3h
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Overview

Discover Belfast’s past while exploring life during The Troubles, when conflict, fear, and resilience shaped everyday reality. Guided by two local women — one from a Republican background and one from a Loyalist community — you’ll walk the Falls and Shankill Roads, where murals, streets, and memories reveal how identity, division, and community shaped their childhoods. They share personal stories of loss, strength, everyday routines under threat, and the courage required to hold families and neighborhoods together. Though separated by politics and walls, their experiences reflect a shared determination to protect loved ones and hope for a better future. You’ll also learn how women on both sides supported dialogue, helped sustain the peace process, and continue to work toward reconciliation today. More than a sightseeing tour, this is a reflective, human encounter with lived history — an invitation to hear real voices and understand Belfast through the perspectives of its women.

Activity location
  • Divis
    • Belfast, United Kingdom
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • 30 Divis St
    • 30 Divis Street
    • BT12 4AL, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Across the Barricades-Women in conflict
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:30AM
Price details
$27.39 x 1 Adult$27.39

Total
Price is $27.39
Until Sat, Feb 14

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Two Local certified Guides
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Gratuities

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Tour is approximately 3 miles (4km) walking
  • There is a lot of standing at the local places of interest connected with the troubles

Activity itinerary

Divis
  • 10m
Was the tallest building in Belfast and house a British Army observation building on its roof and was the location of the tow of the first deaths on the night the troubles broke out in August 1969
International Mural Wall Divis Street
  • 15m
A wonderful array of murals depicting local events and international conflicts both past and present.
Garden of Remembrance
  • 10m
A garden to remember local Republicans who lost their lives in the conflict from the Lower Falls Road area. One of two gardens that we visit and can be controversial as they honour the dead of IRA members.
Falls Road
  • 10m
One of the most famous murals in Belfast, Booby Sand who died on hunger strike in the Maze prison in 1981
Clonard Monastery
  • 10m
Fr, Alex Reid was the resident priest who was instrumental in the beginning of the talks that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement being signed.
Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden
  • 10m
The second of the Memorial Gardens we visit, this time dedicated to the Republicans of The Clonard area and the location which is generally accepted as being the location where 'The Troubles' broke out in August 1969
Peace Wall (Pass by)
Gates between the Loyalist Shankill Road and the Republican Falls road that still close nightly
Peace Wall
  • 5m
Sign the 14m high "Peace Wall that divides the two communities and leave your thoughts on peace.
Shankill Road
  • 5m
A UVF Mural in remembrance of 7 members of the UVF that lost their lives in the Conflict
Shankill Road
  • 10m
Shankill Bomb Site where 9 people lost their lives

Location

Activity location
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    Divis
    • Belfast, United Kingdom
Meeting/Redemption Point
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    30 Divis St
    • 30 Divis Street
    • BT12 4AL, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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