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Historically associated with Protestant unionist and loyalist traditions and with continued union with the United Kingdom.
Estimated time: 25–35 minutes. Includes the activity and its built-in responses. Extra assignments may take longer.
Belfast after the Troubles: map community background, measure segregation, test identity, and decide what peace looks like on the ground.
Begin with the historical shorthand, then refuse to let it do more work than it can.
Historically associated with Protestant unionist and loyalist traditions and with continued union with the United Kingdom.
Historically associated with Catholic nationalist and republican traditions and with a united Ireland.
Religion, community background, political preference, and national identity overlap, but they are not interchangeable.
The Belfast or Good Friday Agreement created a power-sharing settlement and made it possible to pursue constitutional change through consent rather than violence.
Housing patterns, school systems, memories, inequality, murals, flags, routes, and physical barriers retained a geography built over generations.
Change the year, click an area, and look for persistence as well as change.
The map is a teaching reconstruction of recognizable areas. It preserves broad patterns without pretending neighborhood names are stable census units.
The index of dissimilarity asks what share of one group would need to relocate for areas to have the same composition.
A value of 0 means the two groups have the same distribution across areas. A value of 100 means complete separation. It does not tell us why the pattern exists or how residents experience it.
Bars show the Catholic share of the Catholic-plus-Protestant background population. Change the slider and watch the distribution converge.
Large districts can hide segregation that becomes visible on a street or housing-estate map.
Living in a mixed district does not prove that schools, friendships, shopping, and daily routes are integrated.
A lower index can coexist with sharply divided interface areas and persistent barriers.
Use Northern Ireland's 2021 census cross-tabulation to test the old binary.
Choose a policy for a fictionalized Belfast interface based on real barrier dilemmas.
These scores are a discussion model, not a forecast. They force tradeoffs into view; they do not calculate consent or trauma.
Choose the explanation best supported by the investigation.