The main goal of this paper is to try and achieve a better light on the understanding of the role visual arts has played in the Northern Ireland conflict. The historical context of the conflict is necessary as a chronological determinant of everything and as proof of the intensity and duration of the conflict, for the purposes of this part of the paper the primary source is available literature on the subject and media coverage in different time spans. Furthermore, the representation of the contents on the walls, ie the mural, will show the course of the conflict as well as its consequences for the territory of Northern Ireland. For the purposes of the representation, ten examples of murals have been singled out that will be analyzed in detail and attempted to be placed at the time of the action. The last part of the paper is to determine the importance of murals for the inhabitants for whose purpose the primary source will be murals as well as available testimonies, and the literature will serve as a secondary source.