Interfaces Map and Database – Overview

This interfaces map and database provides a comprehensive listing with photographs and descriptions of security barriers and defensive use of space throughout the city, organised geographically by cluster 

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There are 99 different security barriers across Belfast.


The vast majority of the barriers in central, East and West Belfast were constructed prior to the ceasefires while in contrast half of the barriers in North Belfast have been constructed since the ceasefires were declared in 1994.


 A unique oral history project that captured the everyday experiences of people living either side of interface barriers or peace walls. The project uncovered fascinating stories of those who lived in a shared community before the walls were erected, those who were segregated as the walls were built and those who have never experienced life without them.


An overview of security structures, together with a comprehensive listing, including new photographs and descriptions of defensive barriers and interface walls across the region. Explores what progress has been made during the intervening 5 year period to 2017 on ‘reimaging’, ‘reclassifying’ and / or ‘removing’ interface barriers and defensive architecture across Northern Ireland. 




A series of cross-community
photography workshops in Inner East Belfast and Outer West Belfast facilitated by a professional photographer, and attended by residents from within local interface communities.


A resource for people wishing to trace and understand the dynamics of current parades-related disputes and the various initiatives that have been taken in relation to these. The document includes a number of studies that provide a historical background to parading in Northern Ireland, and also works that focus more on the loyal orders that are responsible for organising the parades.