Belfast: Being Young in a Divided City: Belfast_BYiaDC_09

Ryan, 14, in the Village area of south Belfast. Behind him a lamp post in the colors red, blue and white of the Union Jack identifies the area as Protestant. Flags, murals and painted curbs and lamp posts are common identity markers in Protestant working-class areas.

Young working-class youth are growing up in a deeply divided society with an entrenched "us and them" mentality.