Places to see in ( Derry - UK )
Places to see in ( Derry - UK )
Derry, also known as Londonderry, is a city on the River Foyle in Northern Ireland. It’s known for the intact 17th-century Derry’s Walls with 7 gates. Within the walls, spired St. Columb’s Cathedral displays artefacts from the 1688–9 Siege of Derry. Near the Peace Bridge, the Tower Museum has city views and historical exhibits. Huge stained-glass windows adorn the neo-Gothic red sandstone Guildhall.
Derry is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name Daire (modern Irish: Doire) meaning oak grove. In 1613, the city was granted a Royal Charter by King James I and gained the London prefix to reflect the funding of its construction by the London guilds. While the city is more usually known colloquially as Derry, Londonderry is also commonly used and remains the legal name.
The old walled city lies on the west bank of the River Foyle, which is spanned by two road bridges and one footbridge. The city now covers both banks (Cityside on the west and Waterside on the east). The district administered by Derry City and Strabane District Council contains both Londonderry Port and City of Derry Airport.
Derry is close to the border with County Donegal, with which it has had a close link for many centuries. The person traditionally seen as the founder of the original Derry is Saint Colmcille, a holy man from Tír Chonaill, the old name for almost all of modern County Donegal, of which the west bank of the Foyle was a part before 1610. In 2013, Derry was the inaugural UK City of Culture, having been awarded the title in 2010.
Alot to see in ( Derry - UK ) such as :
Tower Museum
Free Derry Corner
St Eugene's Cathedral
St Columba's Church, Long Tower
Prehen House
Grianan of Aileach
Derry City walls
Museum of Free Derry
Peace Bridge
Creggan Country Park
Foyle Valley Railway
Bloody Sunday Monument
Free Derry Museum
St. Columba's Church, Long Tower
Saint Columb's Park
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St Columbs Cathedral, Londonderry
St Columbs Cathedral, Londonderry.
Derry, Northern Ireland - Travel Around The World | Top best places to visit in Derry
Top best places to visit in Derry, Northern Ireland
Derry or, more officially, Londonderry is the second largest city of Northern Ireland.
The city is also nicknamed the Maiden City by virtue of the fact that its walls were never breached despite being besieged on three separate occasions.
Derry is the only remaining walled city in Ireland that is completely intact and it is one of the finest examples of a walled city in Europe.
There are many historical buildings that can be visited when walking down the City Walls.
St Columb’s Cathedral is the mother church of the Ireland Diocese of Derry.
Situated along the City Walls, First Derry Presbyterian Church has recently been re-opened and is now used as a place of worship.
Another admirable church of great importance is the neo-Gothic St Augustine’s Church.
Located within the historic walls Tower Museum, the main museum of the city, tells the story of the city from prehistory to the present.
Right in the center of Derry is a monument dedicated to the citizens who lost their lives during World War I, the Diamond War Memorial.
In the Bogside neighborhood is a historical landmark, a free-standing gable wall, that commemorates Free Derry.
In the same area of the Free Derry Museum is the Bloody Sunday Memorial.
But the Bogside is best known for its large political murals found on the walls of Free Derry Corner.
A more contemporary sculpture in the city, known as Hands Across the Divide, serves as a symbol of the two communities coming together.
Outside of the city walls are many important landmarks worth visiting, such as:
St Eugene’s Cathedral, where there is the Roman Catholic minster.
St Columba’s Church Long Tower, the Roman Catholic Church with the beautiful altar.
And the Guildhall, a large hall where many social and political events have been held.
The Guildhall is located between City Walls and the River Foyle.
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Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Derry - Northern Ireland
Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Derry - Northern Ireland: City Walls, Peace bridge, Guildhall, Walled city Londonderry, Tower Museum, Museum of Free Derry, Free Derry Corner, St. Columb's Cathedral, The Bogside Artists, Millennium Forum, St. Augustine's Church, St. Eugene's Cathedral, The Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall, St. Columba's Church
'Boys Day Out 7,' Inside St Columb's Cathedral 1633
Us three old Belfast boys are on a Belfast train day trip, free bus/rail pass, day to the Maiden City of Derry/Londonderry. Here we look down from our Derrys Walls walk to the recently restored historic St Columb's Church of Ireland Cathedral. We decide to do the self guided tour ( kept right by parishioner Billy ) of this fanatstic building. We were not disappointed. I have to say that this has been the most interesting so far of all the churches anywhere that i have visited and videoed. It has history, including much Seige related history, people, artifacts, architecture and local stories/folklore stretching right back to the 1600s. In all that time it has been a living vibrant place of worship and it still is at the heart of the community here. This open cathedral has to be a must see for anyone interested in history coming to Derry/Londonderry.
St Columb's Cathedral
Standing on a prominent site within Derry's famous walls St columb's is the City of Londonderry's oldest building. It was completed and opened in 1633. Construction work began in 1628 and the stone which records completion is to be seen in the porch of the Cathedral: The Cathedral was built of stone from local quarries and skilled stone cutters and masons had to be procured. The old pillars and arches bear testimony to sound judgement and first-rate craftsmanship.
St Columb's is the first Cathedral in the British 'Isles to have been built after the Reformation and is a fine example of 'Planter's Gothic'. There was practically no change in the appearance of the building from 1633 to 1776 when the Bishop of Derry (the 4th Earl of Bristol) added 21 feet to the tower, and placed above this a very tall and graceful stone spire, making a total height of 221 feet, but about 20 years afterwards, his addition to the tower showed signs of giving way and the whole was taken down and rebuilt, the tower being completed in 1802 and the spire being added about 20 years later. The nave however remained exactly as it was until 1825 when the South Porch was removed. In 1827 the eastern turrets were either rebuilt or else surmounted by domes; before this they appear with battlements. In 1861/2 the interior of the Cathedral was entirely re-modelled, the old square pews were removed, and all the present oak work of the nave was provided, and the galleries in the aisles taken away. Many other improvements were made in the ornaments and furnishings of the building. The addition of the chancel in 1887 completed the Cathedral on the plan of its founders - the foundations had actually been laid in 1633 and were discovered during building operations.
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St Columb's Cathedral is the mother church of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Derry and Raphoe and the parish church of Templemore.
It is dedicated to Saint Columba, the Irish monk who established a Christian settlement in the area before being exiled from Ireland and introducing Christianity to Scotland and northern England.
he present structure, located close to the original, was completed in 1633 by William Parrot, in the Planter's Gothic style. Also in the porch is an inscription:
If stones could speake
then London's prayse
should sound who
built this church and
cittie from the grounde.
St. Columb's has in its possession many documents dating back from the Siege of Derry. They have portraits of William of Orange and the original keys of the city.
The Cathedral also contains a memorial to Valentine Munbee McMaster VC.
St Columb's is the first cathedral to be built by the Anglican church after the Reformation in the British Isles and the first non-RC cathedral to be built in Europe.
Hundreds mourn Martin McGuinness at funeral
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Londonderry - 23 March 2017
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bishop Donal McKeown, Bishop of Derry: ++STARTS ON WIDE++
We welcome the family of Martin McGuinness, Martin's wife Bernie, his daughters Grainne, Fionnuala, sons Fiachra and Emmet, his grandchildren and the wider McGuinness family. For you this is not the funeral of a public figure, this is a funeral of a husband, a father and a grandfather. Our first thoughts, inevitably, are with you and that's why these people are here. I know there were big warm words of welcome and applause for a number of you when you came in. It's 20 years onwards since the Good Friday agreement, the Belfast agreement. There were the three strands to that and the real architects who put that agreement together reflected on the internal strands in Northern Ireland, the north, south strands and the east, west strands. It's a tribute to those who didn't just talk the talk but walked the walk of implementing the Good Friday agreement that all three of those strands are so well represented here this afternoon.
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fr Michael Canny, Priest:
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I would invite you now to stand, please. We gather together this afternoon for our funeral mass for Martin. And our funeral mass here today is a prayer. A prayer where we ask God to forgive Martin of his human weaknesses and that through our prayers and our good works, that Martin may have those weaknesses forgiven and that in time enjoy the peace of heaven. The mass is also of course a mass of thanksgiving for the blessings that he has brought to family and friends and to many others.
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12 SOUNDBITE: (English) Fr Michael Canny, Priest:
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I would like to begin my few words this afternoon with expressing my thoughts and prayers and I trust also your thoughts and prayers for the people of London who suffered so grievously in a terrorist attack yesterday evening. And as I speak of that city, if any of you have ever visited St Paul's cathedral in London you might have seen the plaque on the wall of the crypt where the man who designed the church, the celebrated architect Sir Christopher Wren is buried. There's an inscription on it in Latin which is usually translated as 'if you seek His monument, look around you.' Well, if you seek Martin McGuinness's monument, his legacy, look around you. Look not at the beauty of this St Columba's church long tower which was an integral part of Martin's life and his faith, but look instead at the people gathered here this afternoon in this church. The number of people who are gathered to say farewell to a man who was such a proud member of this community, the person who came to be widely respected as the leader of this community, someone who has been acknowledged in recent days as a politician who spent year after year moving this community towards peace.
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14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Fr Michael Canny, Priest:
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And the presence of those political rivals and opponents among you, who have come to pay your respects this afternoon, your coming is the most eloquent testimony of the memory of Martin McGuinness. So when you seek a monument for the man that brings us here today, look around you. By your presence you are his monument.
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McGuinness, who helped lead his militant movement to compromise with British Protestants, died Tuesday at 66.
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NORTHERN IRELAND: THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF DERMOT McSHANE
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Thousands of people have attended the funeral of Dermot McShane, the 35-year-old Catholic who died after he was injured during riots in Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
McShane died on Saturday after being struck by a British army vehicle during a night of violence - he was buried in Londonderry beside other victims of the 27-year-old conflict.
The latest violence in the province has caused relations between the Irish and British governments to deteriorate to their lowest ebb since the Bloody Sunday killings in 1972.
The latest victim of the bloody conflict.
Thousands of mourners turned out Monday to pay tribute to Dermot McShane, who died during rioting in Londonderry Friday night.
His funeral service was held at St Columba's Church, Longtower, at the edge of the city's Bogside district.
Afterwards, the coffin - draped in an Irish tricolour flag - was conveyed to the cemetery high above Londonderry.
Hundreds of mourners were waiting as the cortege arrived.
Social Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness were among those who came to pay their respects.
McGuinness again blamed the British prime minister for destroying the peace process and said it was time John Major acknowledged this fact.
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I want John Major to recognise the gravity of the situation, I want John Major to acknowledge the reality that he has made a total mess of the old peace process as we knew it and that the only way to resolve this problem is by the British government acknowledging that the problem is a political problem and not a security problem and therefore he must do what Sinn Fein have been saying for years, that is that he must move decisively with the Irish government in a very determined and concerted attempt to bring all of the parties to the negotiating table for real and meaningful peace negotiations, that is what is required.
SUPER CAPTION: Sinn Fein spokesman Martin McGuinness
McShane's American-born wife Treasa (correct spelling) and the couple's two children - Chris and Eric - headed the funeral procession.
Distraught with grief, Treasa had to be supported as the procession passed residents on through the Bogside area en route to the cemetery.
McShane was crushed by a British army personnel carrier during a second night of disturbances in the city - some of the worst to have been seen there for years.
Father Con McLoughlin, who read the homily, said the mood in Londonderry - Northern Ireland's second largest city - was at its lowest ebb for nearly two decades.
McShane, a former member of the Irish National Liberation Army, served a prison
sentence in the 1980s for conspiracy and firearm charges.
He left the movement after being released from prison and worked at a local auto parts manufacturer's until his death.
At a nationalist supporters gathering Sunday night, his widow delivered a message calling for an end to the violence.
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Benjamin Britten - A Hymn of St Columba
Benjamin Britten's A Hymn of St Columba, performed by the Merbecke Choir at Southwark Cathdral on 13 July 2013, directed by Huw Morgan, accompanied by Peter Wright.
The words of this hymn are attributed to St Columba (521-597) and Britten's setting of them dates from the very last days of 1962. St Columba was founder of the monastery of Iona and from the island shrine he made missionary journeys to the Highlands of Scotland.
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Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a branch of Reformed Protestantism which traces its origins to the British Isles. Presbyterian churches derive their name from the presbyterian form of church government, which is government by representative assemblies of elders. Many Reformed churches are organized this way, but the word Presbyterian, when capitalized, is often applied uniquely to the churches that trace their roots to the Scottish and English churches that bore that name and English political groups that formed during the English Civil War. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ. Presbyterian church government was ensured in Scotland by the Acts of Union in 1707 which created the kingdom of Great Britain. In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish (Scotch-Irish American) immigrants. The Presbyterian denominations in Scotland hold to the theology of John Calvin and his immediate successors, although there is a range of theological views within contemporary Presbyterianism.
Local congregations of churches which use presbyterian polity are governed by sessions made up of representatives of the congregation (elders); a conciliar approach which is found at other levels of decision-making (presbytery, synod and general assembly).
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