Category: County Derry

8th May 2018. Visit to the Museum of Free Derry in the Bogside.

Exhibits include banner used by British Army and a Civil Rights banner.

Free Derry Corner is iconic and often painted to promote progressive causes.

My wife at the museum.

8th May 2018. Train journey from Belfast.

Derry (population 80,000). A regular visitor to the the city. Derry derived from Doire meaning Oak Grove is known in some places as “Londonderry” which references the fortification of the city and county by London guilds.

In recent years it has become fashionable to refer to the city as “Derry-Londonderry” in an effort to saisfy Catholic (nationalist) and Protestant (unionist) sensibilities. Originally floated as a joke by radio presenter, Gerry Anderson, it is a compromise that does not make anyone happy.

The photographs were taken in the Bogside and include the monument to the murdered on Bloody Sunday (January 1972).

Murals reference Rev Edward Daly and his heroism on Bloody Sunday, Che Guevara and a group of Nobel Peace laureates, John Hume, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa and Nelson Mandela.