Free Derry Row - Bogside, Derry - Ireland 1971
John Hume being interviewed as he drives round the Bogside.
free derry wall
free derry wall murals, by Ray.
Provisional IRA holds Free Derry referendum & bombs Derry Guildhall 16 June 1972
(no sound for a few seconds but comes in) Provisional IRA holds a referendum in Free Derry & blows up the Guildhall for I think the fourth time, it was one of the most blown up buildings in Ulster along with the Europa hotel in Belfast
Free Derry Corner Northern Ireland October 13th 2017
You Are Now Entering Free Derry
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Free Derry Corner / Irlanda del Norte
Dos momentazos vividos en el Free Derry Corner de Londonberry
Wall on Wall Exhibit - Free Derry Corner
The iconic Free Derry Wall was transformed for an entire weekend (July 19-21) as images by award-winning photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer went on display simultaneously in Derry~Londonderry and the Berlin Wall.
The images formed part of the second major photographic exhibition of the UK City of Culture year in Derry~Londonderry, following on from the hugely acclaimed 'Picturing Derry' exhibition at the City Factory.
Free Derry
Free Derry documents the rise and fall of an autonomous, nationalist, Irish Catholic area of Northern Ireland from 1969-1972. The region broke away from the UK in response to lingering British colonialism. Protestants gerrymandered political districts, the British army and police used excessive violence against Catholics, and Catholics faced discrimination in employment and access to public services. Through interviews, photographs, and murals, Free Derry tells a little known story of the fight for equal rights for Catholics in Derry.
More background from Wikipedia:
Free Derry (Irish: SaorDhoire) was a self-declared autonomous nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland, between 1969 and 1972. Its name was taken from a sign painted on a gable wall in the Bogside in January 1969 which read, You are now entering Free Derry. The area, which included the Bogside and Creggan neighbourhoods, was secured by community activists for the first time on 5 January 1969 following an incursion into the Bogside by members of the police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Residents built barricades and carried clubs and similar arms to prevent the RUC from entering. After six days the residents took down the barricades and police patrols resumed, but tensions remained high over the following months.
Violence reached a peak on 12 August 1969, culminating in the Battle of the Bogside—a three day pitched battle between residents and police. On 14 August units of the British Army were deployed at the edge of the Bogside and the police were withdrawn. The Derry Citizens Defence Association (DCDA) declared their intention to hold the area against both the police and the army until their demands were met. The army made no attempt to enter the area. The situation continued until October 1969 when, following publication of the Hunt Report, military police were allowed in.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) began to re-arm and recruit after August 1969. In January 1970 it split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA. Both were supported by the people of the Free Derry area. Meanwhile, relations between the British Army and the nationalist community, which were initially good, deteriorated. In July 1971 there was a surge of recruitment into the IRA after two young men were shot and killed by British troops. The government introduced internment on 9 August 1971, and in response, barricades went up once more in the Bogside and Creggan. This time, Free Derry was a no-go area, defended by armed members of both the Official and Provisional IRA. From within the area they mounted gun attacks on the army, and the Provisionals began a bombing campaign in the city centre. As before, unarmed 'auxiliaries' manned the barricades, and crime was dealt with by a voluntary body known as the Free Derry Police.
Each To Their Own.
Poem Put To Derry Riots
Helicopters out; a sign of worse to come??
As officers and republicans cautiously load there guns.
Each passionate in hateful words be it taigs or louts or huns,
Each in disregard of peace, cause of what the others done
Lots of tents and activity down by free-derry wall
Peaceful protests of hunger, for-the-people to heed there call.
Drinkers sat upon the banking cant relate to them at all,
they see there attidudes and mindsets, obsolete and miniscule
I heard another bombscare caused bishop street to close,
A community wet with retrospect is kept light upon its toes.
Though its the working man who feels the blunt of rebellions vicious blows
No-ones fighting his own struggle, to feed his weans or buy them clothes
Theres the tea-ladys found in bars, that speak firmly of there hate,
Bitter offiicers in the station, the youth they aggrivate
Each against digested chemicals, the un-involved those help sedate
that enemy, just a bi-product of each impoverished council estate.
This is a twisted web thats started, as idealogys contort and shift
One's angry at suppliers for the things that he has sniffed
Another turn's to that affliction cause of the innocent he's stiffed
Each within an institution; intrenched in a bias, bitter rift...
Mass hypocrisy on every level
Each a victim of the others babble
Each a hand on each stone-thrown
Each for gains of their selfish own
Each a part to take in blame
ALL should hang there heads in shame.
Paul Ruairi Devine 2011
When Stones Speak - Free Derry Corner
This project is titled When Stones Speak, and provides background information for the visitor on Free Derry Corner and the Derry Walls. These videos are intended to provide visitors to the city information about these two iconic sites. The Derry Walls video can be found here -
Free Derry Corner is an iconic gable wall which is visited by thousands of people who are often keen to photograph themselves at this site. Raymond Craig provides the story of the gable wall, its origins, and a pictorial record of the social change since the late 1960s, to the present day.
This video was made possible by funding given by Derry City and Strabane District Council.
Free Derry Corner
A drive through Derry, Londonderry, in N Ireland in the camper.
Free Derry corner solidarity with Catalunya / Derry Girls mural
Free Derry corner solidarity with Catalunya / Derry Girls mural
Ok I was in Derry / Londonderry/ maiden city / walled city / stroke city / northwest capital , whatever the fuck you want to call it lol , and I went to video the wall as I seen somewhere that it said Lyra McKee 6 months on never forgotten but when I got there new graffiti was there showing solidarity with Cataloyna which I had to google to see, it is Catalonian for Catalan, and since I love the show Derry girls I threw in a quick view of their mural.....and breath lol
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Free Derry: The IRA Drug War
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In February 2014, letter bombs were sent to nine British Military recruitment offices over the course of three days. Londonderry postmarks, a coded message sent to a Northern Irish newspaper, and security forces at Downing Street all pointed to the New IRA as the main suspects.
Last Summer, VICE News visited Derry and heard from Gary Donnelly - the most prominent dissident republican in Londonderry, accused of leading operations for the Real IRA - that these attacks on Britain were to be expected as part of strategic attacks on high profile targets, as it's England that's occupying Ireland.
In 'Free Derry: The IRA Drug War', VICE News investigate how, sixteen years after the Good Friday peace agreement and on the eve of the first major loyalist parade through the city in four years, dissident republican activity in Derry is increasing thanks to the merger of the Real IRA with anti-drugs vigilantes.
VICE News reporter Alex Miller speaks to members of the Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD), who formed the coalition with the Real IRA, and meets supporters as young as thirteen who are being armed with petrol bombs to combat criminal gangs and intervening police.
For the first time, Paul Stewart, a close friend of slain Dublin Real IRA leader Alan Ryan, speaks on camera about witnessing the murder, as well as sharing insights on Ryan's war against drug dealers.
Miller also interviews the mother of Andrew Smith, a man who she says was murdered by the Real IRA despite no affiliation with drugs related crime, before hearing from a Derry ex-drug dealer who now claims that, if the New IRA didn't fight drugs, this town would be filled with ecstasy and rat poison and kids would be dying.
VICE encounter a city where kneecappings and shootings are rife, walls are branded with anti-UK slogans, and where a policeman can scarcely walk down the street - according to Gary Donnelly - without being killed.
In Free Derry: The IRA Drug War, VICE unmask the farcical veneer of the UK's 'City of Culture' 2013.
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Irish Murals Mark The Troubles in Bogside Derry/Londonderry - The Bogside Murals - History Tour
A walking tour of the Derry/Londonderry murals. Many found in the Bogside part of Derry - political murals marking many key events in the city's history including Bloody Sunday.
A haunting reminder to the times not that long ago that the people of Northern Ireland suffered due to the Troubles. It is well worthwhile for any tourist to take a tour in these areas with a local and hear first hand the events that consumed everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Bogside is a neighborhood outside the city of walls of Derry in county Londonderry and this is where the different large-garble wall murals drawn by Bogside Artists, Free Derry Corner, and the Gasyard Feile (which is an annual music and arts festival held in a former gasyard). These different murals are considered a famous touristic attraction and that was the reason why we managed to visit this place and wander the streets looking for those art pieces.
Most of these different murals drawn on the walls of the streets are related to the period of The Troubles since this neighborhood has been the focal point of almost all the events of The Troubles. The Troubles was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century which was also known as the Northern Ireland Conflict. This conflict was mainly political and nationalistic but sometimes it was fueled by some historical events along the way
With the effort exerted by Bogside Artists, there are now 12 large wall murals drawn on the street walls of this small neighborhood and which the last one of them was completed in 2008. With all these different drawings found on the walls, this place has been referred to as The People's Gallery and which include The Petrol Bomber, Bernadette, Bloody Sunday, Bloody Sunday Commemoration, Death of Innocence, Hunger Strike, Operation Motorman, The Saturday Matinee, Civil Rights, Peace Mural, The Runner, and A Tribute to John Hume. Every single one of these different murals is drawn for a reason and to tell a specific story about the history of Bogside when it comes to The Troubles time.
There are different drawings from these which might be related to the same incidence or event but which might be telling a different story; there was this one for example related to the Bloody Sunday incident of those 14 people killed during a civil rights demonstration, and there is also another one related to the same day but which is about the face or portraits of those different 14 people along with drawing a leaf around them; 14 leaves, each one to resemble one of those victims.
Walking through streets that carry these different pieces and murals of art will definitely let one wonder about those who have been behind such creativity and ideas. Bogside Artists is a trio of mural painters from Derry, Londonderry and who are Tom Kelly, William Kelly, and Kevin Hasson; they are those three painters who transformed the walls of Bogside to this beautiful scenery which we are exposed to and not just that, but they tend to deliver something of meaning, something related to the history of Derry.
Those murals drawn in the streets of Bogside neighborhood are the most famous work for Bogside Artists, and which is all about the sectarian violence and the civil rights protests during the time of The Troubles in Northern Ireland - and we have to say that we were more than excited while watching all these drawings and experiencing the art that these three artists managed to deliver.
If you already know about the history of the place and know what used to happen during the time of The Troubles then you could just head to Bogside and wander the streets there in Derry to experience those murals and know the stories they tend to deliver, but if you don't know much about this period of time then there are two different things to do: you will either have to read about this history in order to understand every single mural, or else walk the place with a guide or someone who knows about these things well enough.
The idea of street murals is always fascinating, you walk by one of them and you feel as if you have seen the most beautiful thing in the whole world. There are other murals in Northern Ireland which are also becoming famous such as the Peace Wall in Belfast ( the murals and artwork in the Cathedral Quarter in Belfast ( the Tall Ships mural in Belfast ( and also The Son of Protagoras Mural which is found in Belfast as well (
Walking by any of these different murals - or graffiti as they are referred to more - will also leave you stunned by the art you are seeing displayed on the street walls and that is exactly the same with Bogside in Derry.
Irish Murals Mark The Troubles in Bogside Derry/Londonderry - The Bogside Murals - History Tour
Free Derry Corner
Mapped Projections by Guerrilla Shout Belfast, in Derry.
Free Derry, Bogside
Free Derry wall, Bogside, Londonderry.
Derry, Northern Ireland visit
A bit of history in this amazing lil trip with friends, we did a stop at the mall (Foyle Side) and Nandos to eat! we walked around the city wall. hope you enjoy it!
Special Thanks to our friends Emma and Gavin
Un poco de historia en un viaje que hicimos con amigos, fuimos a la plaza Foyle Side, y a comer a un restaurante llamado Nandos, donde tienen muchas salsas picantes, después fuimos a dar una caminata por los muros de Derry. espero lo disfruten
Gracias especiales a nuestros amigos Emma y Gavin.
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