In talking about the Real IRA, the splinter group that took responsibility for the March 7 attack on an army barracks outside of Belfast that left two soldiers dead, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has said, "The people we are arresting are not 50 or 60 year olds from the old world.
In The Shadow of the Walls
Published July 10, 2009
Featured on Foreign Exchange beginning Friday, July 10, 2009.
Produced by Scott P. Harris
In association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
In 1998, the historic Good Friday Agreement ended the thirty-year sectarian war in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles." Although great strides have been made, the poor working class neighborhoods of Belfast remain fiercely divided. Giant walls, known as "peace lines," keep Catholics and Protestants separated, and while they keep the people safe, they also prevent true peace.
Teenagers in working class Belfast belie success of integration efforts.
Scott P. Harris, for the Pulitzer Center
