FRIDAY
DERRY/LONDONDERRY
FRIDAY
DERRY/LONDONDERRY
| Okay, so what's the deal with the name? Is it Derry or Londonderry? The name was changed from Derry to Londonderry in 1613 when James I granted the city a Royal Charter. Londonderry is the official name, but it is more commonly referred to as Derry. |
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| It is a walled city. |
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| If they ever declare war on McDonalds, they already have their cannons trained on the one across the street. |
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| There were a couple of guys crouched down behind these cannons waiting for a group of kids to walk down the wall. I was wondering if they were some sort of molesters or robbers, but it seems they were part of some tour or something. They jumped out at them and were acting like Irish republicans from back during The Troubles. |
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| The famous sign at Free Derry Corner and a couple of the murals that on the sides of many of the buildings. "The Petrol Bomber" is on the left and "Bernadette" is on the right. |
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| "The Runner". I took a lot more photos of the murals, but I wouldn't have much to say about them so you won't see them all. |
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| This is the Museum of Free Derry. It is an exhibition of The Troubles and of Bloody Sunday. I learned from the man who owns the place that some people were shot dead by a British soldier right outside that door on the right. |
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| Some artifacts from the civil rights movement. |
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| More stuff. |
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| This is an original record player used by Radio Free Derry in August 1969. The record on the turntable is "Bernadette in Command". I guess she's the same Bernadette as in the mural. |
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| A banner carried during the march on Bloody Sunday. That dark stain in the middle is blood. It was used to drape the body of Hugh Gilmour and covered the spot where Barney McGuigan was killed. |
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| Here it is in a cleaner state. |
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| The jacket of Jim Wray. The two yellow arrows point to bullet holes. The soldiers were shooting people in the back. |
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| Baby-gro and bandage used to stem the flow of blood after Michael Kelly was shot. |
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| The small report on the left is a copy of the original 1972 Widgery Report on the massacre that exonerated the British soldiers. The large report on the right is a copy of the Saville Inquiry released in 2010. Looks like they did a little more work on the second report, which stated that, in short, the soldiers fucked up and murdered thirteen people. |
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| A sign that things are still not good despite the ratification of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The RIRA is the Real Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary terrorist organization seeking a united Ireland. |
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| The War Memorial in the central diamond of the walled city. |
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