A man looks out from a viewing point on Cuilcagh mountain. The UK/Ireland border runs along the top of the mountain.

Michael Donaghy at his home that sits a few yards away from the UK/Irish border on a small road near Crossmaglen. He has lived all his life in the house and said that during the Troubles the road was regularly blown up by the British Army only to be rebuilt by the local population.

A neighbourhood celebration in Larne before the lighting of the bonfires to commemorate the 12th July.

Children play next to a Peace Wall that separates the Catholic and Protestant communities in West Belfast. These children are on the Catholic side of the wall. In 2013 Stormont’s Executive Office launched a plan to dismantle all Northern Ireland’s Peace Walls by 2023. Over the last ten years, 18 peace walls have been removed, but 60 remain standing, the vast majority of them in Belfast. The wall shown in the picture runs between the Shankill Road and the Falls Road and reaches a height of 45 feet (14 metres).

A backstreet in the Catholic Bogside area of Derry.

A farmworker with cows on their way to be milked at farm in Kilnalek.

A bonfire burns in Larne to celebrate the 12th July and the defeat of the Catholic Army at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Horses in a field near Strabane in the UK. The hills in the background are in the Republic of Ireland.

Mickey & Barney’s Super Circus in the border in the town of Lifford.

Tourists at the Giants Causeway, one of Northern Ireland’s biggest tourist attractions. The chair of Tourism Northern Ireland recently described the underlying trend of Northern Ireland’s tourist sector as being one of ‘dynamic growth’, but the UK Govt’s raising of the terrorist threat level in Northern Ireland to ‘severe’ in 2023 may have an adverse effect on it.

Orangemen and marching bands wait to start a parade to mark St Patrick’s Day in Ballymena. Although around the world St Patrick is associated with Catholicism, in Northern Ireland many Protestants, Ulster Scots and Scots-Irish also celebrate his birth.

A mural for the Loyalist Paramilitary Organisation the Ulster Volunteer Force in East Belfast.

Members of the Protestant Orange Order relax by the beach after taking part in the first 12th July Parade of the year at Rossknowlagh in the Irish republic.

Teenage boys, three from the Republic, and one from the North, relax on a makeshift jetty in Lough Erne, a few hundred yards away from the border between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

The seaside resort of Bonduran in County Donegal in the Irish Republic has traditionally been popular as a holiday destination for Northern Ireland's Catholic population.

Near the UK/Ireland border on the road between Cavan and Clones.

The canteen at the cattle auction in Ballyjamesduff near the border with the UK.

A children’s birthday party at An Cro Mor, a squatted community centre in the Creggan area of Derry. History is never far away in Derry and during the Troubles, this area was a car park where two IRA men died as they were making bombs. Another IRA member was shot dead by British troops at the front of the building.

Father Kevin Mullen leads the funeral of a 91 year old parishioner in the village of Drumquin. Father Mullen was based in Omagh when the Real IRA detonated a bomb there in 1998 that killed 29 people and he was instrumental in peace building efforts over the following decades between the Catholic and Protestant communities. Reflecting on the Good Friday Agreement shortly before his death in 2023, he said that it had clearly saved many lives, “and for that we are grateful. But it’s also given people a license to go back to their old attitudes: ‘We’ll coexist with you, but we don’t have to like you’. You can stand side by side with someone, but not heart-to-heart.”

A derelict house in the centre of Cavan

Orangemen gather in Omagh to commemorate the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, when British troops sustained 60,000 casualties. Even though Irish Protestants and Catholics fought side by side in the First World War, in Northern Ireland the commemoration has become an issue of identity for the Protestant/Loyalist community, and over 90 parades take place throughout the province on the 1st July.

The UK/Ireland border on the road between Cavan and Clones. Over a distance of about 6 miles (10 km) this road crosses the border 4 times.

A derelict house close to the UK border used as a safe house for IRA militants escaping from the North during the years of the Troubles.

Francis Dooher. Francis lives around 100 yards from the UK/Ireland border. After a life living and working in the UK and Malaysia, he retired to his house on the border in 1989, during the Troubles.

The cattle market at Enniskillen, close to the Uk/Ireland border. Many farmers here own land on both sides of the border.

Housty’s Barber shop in the Creggan area of Derry

The city of Derry/Londonderry seen from the River Foyle.

An Elvis impersonator sings for shoppers in Belfast.

Crowds gather in Larne to watch the lighting of the Town’s bonfire to celebrate the 12th July and the defeat of the Catholic Army at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

A children’s play area and new build housing in the village of Forkhill on the site of a former British Army base less than a mile away from the border with the Irish Republic. The hard standing in the foreground is all that is left of the British Army base.

Jackdaws coming home to roost over the town of Cavan.