Belfast’s Street Art: Recommended tours & tickets

This is a Tour in Belfast From a Local's perspective. Familiarize yourself with Belfast through the eyes of a passionate local in an Iconic Black Taxi Cab. Get Right into the Falls Road and Shankill Road Neighbourhoods where your accredited local Guide will explain the events of 1969 right up to the present day. Time in each location varies and is dependant on interaction with the guests. Main sites, Bobby Sands Mural, International Wall, Peace Wall.

At Belfast.tours we pride ourselves in providing our customers with a professional,informative and thought provoking tour.All our guides have grown up and lived through this most recent conflict in Irish history. This is real people with real stories. Our Belfast mural taxi tour guides have over 20 years experience and use their natural gift for storytelling to share the stories behind each mural,building, the neighborhood and Belfast's history. Belfast is an ever changing city with a fascinating history and no-one tells it's stories better than our guides here at Belfast.tours.

Belfast Mural Tours invites you to embark on an extraordinary journey through the heart of the city, where art meets history and creates a powerful tapestry of emotions. Our expert guides, with an in-depth understanding of Belfast's past and present, will lead you through the maze of streets, revealing the stories behind each mural, uncovering the tales of hardship, courage, and hope that have shaped the city's identity. The murals of Belfast, once symbols of division, now stand as powerful reminders of the transformative power of art in healing wounds and building bridges. Join us and discover a city that wears its history on its walls and beckons you to be a part of its extraordinary journey of transformation and renewal. Cruise port pick up add £15.00 Tour start times are, 10.00am  12.00pm  2.00pm,, please state when booking your preferred start time and pick up point.

Tour Highlights: • Visit areas of historical significance. • Famous murals on Falls Road & Shankill Road • Memorial Gardens • Drive through both communities visiting landmarks displaying tributes to local people • The famous Peace Line dividing both communities. With gates that are still locked daily!

This tour offers a unique chance to learn 800 years of history and travel with the original drivers who put their lives at risk every day during The Troubles trying to provide a transport service in their black cabs to the people of The famous Falls road and Shankill road. This riveting journey into the most recent conflict in Irish/Brtish history. Your local knowledgeable guide will provide you with an insight into the famous murals and epic peacewalls around Belfast. Your tour is transport based, travel in our luxurious classic London cabs.

On this 3 hour Walk we will discover some of the Modern Street Art, by International Street Artists, Belfast is now becoming known for. As we go into the West of the city to view some of the more controversial Political Murals. And hear how Northern Ireland is working with locals to create Peace. We will also see a project called re-imaging, which aims to put Street Art or Murals up that the local communities want to share with all that pass by.

This tour has been highly recommended by universities around the world hugely popular for people interested in political conflict studies.This tour is unique as it specialises in Irish Republicanism by a Professional Guide with a unique insight into the conflict as well as Irish History.Our guides are former POWs and members of Sinn Féin and are Irish Republican Political Activists and are fully equipped to give you an in-depth analysis of the conflict from an Irish Republican perspective and view from the start in 1969 to the present day,as well as the last 852 years of British Occupation.From 1968 until 2005,the Provisional Irish Republican Army conducted an armed military campaign primarily in the Northern part of Ireland (the occupied 6 counties and England and Europe,aimed at ending British rule in Northern Ireland in order to create a united Ireland. We will visit areas that ordinary tourists do not have access to you will gain Access to Private Museum,Graveyard and Murals.