Stock photo of murals commemorating fallen fighters of the 'Troubles' in Ireland. The Troubles is a term used to describe the latest instalment of periodic communal violence involving Republican and Loyalist paramilitary organisations, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the British Army and others in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s until the Belfast Agreement of 10 April 1998. The Troubles have been variously described as terrorism, ethnic conflict, a many-sided conflict, a guerrilla war, a low intensity conflict, and even a civil war. Almost 2,000 political murals have been documented in Northern Ireland since the 1970s. Shot in Belfast Northern Ireland October 2007.

Stock photo of murals commemorating fallen fighters of the 'Troubles' in Ireland. The Troubles is a term used to describe the latest instalment of periodic communal violence involving Republican and Loyalist paramilitary organisations, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the British Army and others in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s until the Belfast Agreement of 10 April 1998. The Troubles have been variously described as terrorism, ethnic conflict, a many-sided conflict, a guerrilla war, a low intensity conflict, and even a civil war. Almost 2,000 political murals have been documented in Northern Ireland since the 1970s. Shot in Belfast Northern Ireland October 2007.