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It's been 25 years since Northern Ireland signed the Good Friday Agreement.

But Belfast is still divided by walls.

The 'peace walls' are 75 walls across 13 kilometres.

They separated pro-Ireland republican supporters and pro-UK supporters.

The fighting between these two groups is called 'The Troubles'.

This continued until the peace agreement was signed in 1998.

Michael Culbert used to fight for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) but he's now a tour guide at the peace walls.

He would like to remove the walls.

The Berlin Wall was destroyed after the Soviet Union broke up.

But the peace walls in Belfast have become an essential part of communities.

Professor Jonny Byrne says they'll remain.

Today, the peace walls are a tourist attraction.

But people still use the walls for protests.

People live and work peacefully together in other parts of Belfast.

So, will the peace walls be taken down?

Culbert thinks it'll take a while before this happens.

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