This image of two derelict houses in a late-Victorian or Edwardian terrace, decorated with the symbols of opposition, seeks to sum up the destruction of the community as a result of the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. The green, white and gold Easter lily symbolises the Republic of Ireland, while the red, white and blue of the Union Flag signifies the Unionist attachment to the idea of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Although there had always been single-denomination areas in the Province before ‘the Troubles’, there were also mixed community areas where Roman Catholic and Protestant families lived side-by-side. Here, even the way in which doors have been blocked up, one with breeze blocks, one with corrugated iron, tell of the fundamental differences and the complete breakdown of tolerance which once permitted coexistence.