Segregation in Northern Ireland

Segregation in Northern Ireland

The following is a draft page on the topic of segregation in Northern Ireland. Information on the topic can also be found in the sections on:

• education,
• employment, and
• housing.

In addition a number of reports produced by Templegrove Action Research Limited are being made available at the CAIN site. These reports are based on community research carried out in 'Derry Londonderry' into aspects of segregation and sectarian division in the city.

  Selected reading list

  Main Items on CAIN

• Callaghan, Sandra. (2001). Comparative Perspectives on Housing Segregation: Northern Ireland and US Frostbelt Cities.. Web: CAIN.
• Collins, P., Moore, R., & Smyth, M. (1996). Life in Two Enclave Areas in Northern Ireland: A Field Survey in Derry Londonderry after the Ceasefires. Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research Limited.
• Cummings, E. Mark., Shirlow, Peter., Browne, Brendan., Dwyer, Clare., Merrilees, Christine E., and Taylor, Laura K. (2016). Growing Up On an Interface - Findings and Implications for the Social Needs, Mental Health and Lifetime Opportunities of Belfast Youth, (25 March 2016), [PDF; 836KB]. Belfast: OFMdFM. ... [20682]
• Doherty, Paul. Poole, Michael. (1996). Ethnic Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland. Coleraine: Centre for the Study of Conflict, University of Ulster.
• Doherty, Paul. Poole, Michael. (1995). Ethnic Residential Segregation in Belfast. Coleraine: Centre for the Study of Conflict, University of Ulster.
• Mapping the Spaces of Fear Research Team. (2000). Fear, Mobility and Living in the Ardoyne and Upper Ardoyne Communities, (A report by the Mapping the Spaces of Fear Research Team at the University of Ulster). Coleraine: University of Ulster. An Executive Summary is also available.
• Moore, R. (1996). Policing and Sectarian Division in Derry Londonderry (Prepared for public consultations with the Police Authority for Northern Ireland). Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research Limited.
• Moore, R. & Smyth, M. (1996). Hemmed in and hacking it: life in two enclaves in Northern Ireland - words and images from The Fountain and Gobnascale. Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research Limited.
• Moore, R. & Smyth, M. (1996). A Report of a Series of Public Discussions on Aspects of Sectarian Division in Derry Londonderry, December 1994 - June 1995. Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research Limited.
• Murtagh, B. (1997). Community and Conflict in Rural Ulster. A Summary Report. Belfast: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council.
• Murtagh, B. (1992) Sectarian Interface Research in Belfast. [Report to CCRU] Jordanstown: Department of Public Administration and Legal Studies, University of Ulster.
• Smyth, M. (1996). Urban Regeneration and Sectarian Division (Prepared for public consultations with the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland). Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research Limited.
• Smyth, M. (1995). Sectarian Division and Area Planning: a commentary on "The Derry Area Plan 2011: Preliminary Proposals". Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research Limited.
• Smyth, Marie. (1995). Borders within Borders: material and ideological aspects of segregation, Presented at The Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control; Crossmaglen, September 1995. Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research Ltd..
• Smyth, M. Moore, R. (1996). 'Researching Sectarianism', in, Three Conference Papers on Aspects of Segregation and Sectarian Division. Derry Londonderry: Templegrove Action Research.

  Peacelines / Peace Walls / Interface Barriers

The peacelines constitute a physical manifestion of segregation in Northern Ireland.

See:

• CAIN glossary entry
• CAIN photographs of peacelines.
• CAIN Bibliography
• CAIN GIS Maps
• Belfast Interface Project (BIP). NIO Identified Interfaces - map of barriers with photographs and descriptions. {external_link}
• Byrne, Jonny., Gormley Heenan, Cathy, and Robinson, Gillian. (2012). Attitudes to Peace Walls: Research Report to Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister, (June 2012), [Released: 26 September 2012], [PDF; 1182KB]. Derry: INCORE, University of Ulster.
  See also - report; full datasets; technical report; questionnaires; and lay-friendly tables at: http://www.ark.ac.uk/peacewalls2012/
• Jarman, Neil. (2012). Belfast Interfaces: Security barriers and defensive use of space, (11 January 2012), [PDF; 4070KB]. Belfast: Belfast Interface Project (BIP).
• Jarman, Neil. (2008). 'Security and Segregation: Interface Barriers in Belfast', Shared Space, Issue 6, June 2008, pp21-34. Belfast: Community Relations Council (CRC). {external_link}
• Jarman, Neil. (2005). Belfast Interface Project BIP Interface Mapping Project (annotated list of NIO barriers), (August 2005), [PDF; 48KB]. Belfast: Institute for Conflict Research (ICR).
• Lauber, Margrethe.C. Belfast's Peacelines: An Analysis of Urban Borders, Design and Social Space in a Divided City - text and photographs by Margrethe C Lauber. {external_link - no longer working}
• Macaulay, Tony. (2008). A Process for Removing Interface Barriers: A discussion paper proposing a five phase process for the removal of ‘peace walls’ in Northern Ireland, (July 2008), [PDF; 361KB]. Belfast: Macaulay Associates.
• Peacewall Archive - Artefacts from a city of walls: A case study of urban division in Belfast, Northern Ireland. {external_link}

  Details of source material