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Murals represent the political views, memorials for those lost in the battle between Catholics and Protestants in the age old battle for Northern Ireland on both the Catholic and Protestant sides of West Belfast and other politically related scenes from Belfast.

Belfast, Northern Ireland. January 2011.//

Black taxis take tourists around predominantly working class West Belfast to see the famous wall murals painted by both the Nationalists who are Catholics in favor of a United Ireland and the Unionists who are Protestants and in favor of northern Ireland remaining a part of Great Britain. This is one of the murals on the Protestant side that is a depiction of pro “H” block sentiment. “H: block is the famous “H” block of the Maze Prison in Lisburn where the Catholic terrorists were held and the hunger strikes of early 1980s occurred.