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Londonderry, also called Derry, is one of Northern Ireland’s most exciting cities. It has a rich history and many sights, and it is all located in a clear city center, where there is never far between the experiences that are to come.
The city is known, among other things, for its city walls that surround the center. The city walls were built at the beginning of the 17th century to protect the Protestant immigrants from England and Scotland, and the walls are still intact. Together with the Guildhall, several churches and museums, they are the city’s major attractions.
As elsewhere on the island of Ireland, the historic disagreement between nationalists and unionists has left its mark in Londonderry/Derry. Here there are Protestant areas and Catholic neighborhoods, and between them the Peace Bridge spans the River Doyle. There are also museums and memorials to the battles that have taken place here over the years.
Londonderry/Derry is located in the west of Northern Ireland, and there are several interesting things to see in the area. It is not far to the Northern Irish capital Belfast and to the UNESCO world heritage site Giant’s Causeway. The city is also just a few kilometers from experiences in the Republic of Ireland such as Glenveagh National Park.
Guildhall in the center of Londonderry/Derry is one of the city’s most impressive buildings. It was funded by The Honorable The Irish Society, which was also behind the construction of the city walls in the early 17th century. The Guildhall was completed in 1890 and is today the seat of local government for Derry City and Strabane District. The building has a beautiful interior, and the Great Hall of Representation and the stained glass windows of the Guildhall are particularly worth seeing.
There was already a town hall in the town from the 17th century, and the first meeting place for the town council was in the Market House, which was destroyed during the siege of the town in 1689. The current town hall has also been destroyed several times. First by fire in 1908 and later by bombing in 1972 during the conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted from the 1960s to 1998.
Incidentally, you can also see the Guildhall’s tower on the building, and if it looks a bit familiar, there’s a good reason for that. The tower was designed with inspiration from the Elizabeth Tower in London, better known as Big Ben.
Londonderry/Derry is a unique city in Northern Ireland and the rest of the island of Ireland due to its preserved city walls that enclose the old town. The city walls were built in the years 1613-1619 by The Honorable The Irish Society. The purpose of the walls was to protect Englishmen and Scots who had moved to Ulster in connection with the contemporary settlement of Ulster.
The walls around the city were built as a consequence of the O’Doherty Rebellion in 1608, when Irishmen led by Sir Cahir Rua O’Doherty attacked what was then Derry and burned down the city. With the walls and The Honorable The Irish Society springing from London, Derry was renamed Londonderry by royal decree. Thereby started the long-standing and continuing discussion about the name of Londonderry/Derry.
You can walk along the city walls, which are a good 1.5 kilometers long. There are seven gates on the tour, and four of them were built at the same time as the walls. The original gates are Bishop’s Gate, Butcher’s Gate, Ferryquay Gate and Shipquay Gate, while New Gate, Castle Gate and Magazine Gate were built in the 1790s, 1805-1808 and 1888 respectively. Around the walls you can see a number of preserved cannons from the city’s defense.
This church, also known as the Long Tower Church, was built 1783-1788 on a site where other churches had stood since the 12th century. The current church is Catholic and was rebuilt to its present appearance in 1810.
The church is not the city’s Catholic cathedral, but it is considered by many to be the heart of Catholicism in Londonderry/Derry. In addition, it also offers probably the most beautiful interior with classy decorations, balconies around the church room and a fine altar as some of the must-see elements.
At the church you can visit St. Columba Heritage Centre, which offers an exciting exhibition about not least St. Columban, who was an Irish monk and missionary who lived in the 5th century.
The so-called Apprentice Boys are today an association which commemorates the city’s defense against the Catholic King James II’s siege of Londonderry/Derry in 1688-1689. James II was England’s last Catholic king, and Londonderry/Derry was at the time a Protestant stronghold.
The siege of the city began in December 1688, when 13 apprentices, the Apprentice Boys, closed the gates of Londonderry/Derry to 1,200 advancing soldiers. The siege lasted until July 1689, when ships breached the barriers on the River Foyle and brought supplies to the city. About half the population had died during the siege from starvation and injuries during the defensive struggle.
In two buildings next to each other are the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall and The Siege Museum, where you can see an exhibition that describes the siege and in many ways depicts contemporary life in the city and during the siege.
This is a museum that depicts part of the recent local history of Londonderry/Derry. The story of Free Derry started with the establishment of a civil rights movement that, among other things, wanted the established constituencies changed so that they favored the nationalists, who in many places were in the majority, to a greater extent.
At the beginning of January 1969, there were battles between nationalists and unionists, and the nationalists meet in the Bogside quarter. Here they established Free Derry, which was the name of an area of the city that the nationalists proclaimed as independent between 1969 and 1972. The area’s residents built barricades and armed themselves to prevent the police and military from entering.
Throughout the three years of Free Derry there were several battles, and on 30 January 1972, 13 protesters were killed when a march was fired upon by British soldiers. Later that year, on 31 July 1972, the British authorities entered the Free Derry quarter, marking the end of Free Derry. This entire history can be experienced at the museum, and in the surrounding streets you can take a walk in the neighborhood where the events took place.
Free Derry Corner is a site and monument to the time when there were battles between the population groups in Londonderry/Derry in the 1900s. At the intersection of the streets Lecky Road and Fahan Street you can see the wall where the famous words “You are now entering Free Derry” were written in 1969. It happened as part of the self-proclaimed Free Derry, which operated between 1969 and 1972.
The wall with the black writing was originally a house gable, but the gable’s house and some of the surrounding ones have been demolished for many years, and therefore the wall stands in the middle of Lecky Road. To the north of the gable you can see a large H, which is a memorial to the Republican Northern Irish hunger strike in 1981. If you go further north, you can see the Bloody Sunday Monument, which commemorates the Bloody Sunday that took place on 20 January 1972.
St. Columb’s Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral in Londonderry/Derry, and it is thus part of the Church of Ireland. The church is dedicated to St. Columban, who was an Irish monk and missionary. Columban was born in 521 in Donegal and he lived until about 593.
Before the current cathedral, there was a church on the site, which was destroyed during the Nine Years’ War, fought 1594-1603 between Irish chieftains and the English rule in Ireland. During the war, the church was first destroyed, and in the year 1600 the Englishman Sir Henry Docwra came to the city with 4,000 soldiers. He had the church ruins torn down to use the stones for walls and fortification of the city.
The current cathedral was completed in 1633. It was the first church to be built as an Anglican cathedral in the British Isles, and it was also the first non-Catholic cathedral to be built in Western Europe. It was William Parratt from London who built the church, and the architecture became a beautiful and contemporary example of the Gothic style in England in the 17th century.
The interior of the cathedral is impressive. The beautiful stone walls provide a framework for solid columns, elegant joinery, stained glass windows and other details worth seeing. The church space has been changed several times since the church was built. It happened i.a. during a major rebuild in the 1860s, where most of the impression today was created.
Like several other places in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland, there are two cathedrals in Londonderry/Derry. St. Eugene’s Cathedral is the city’s Catholic cathedral and thereby the seat of the Catholic bishop. The construction of the church was made possible by the Roman Catholic Relief Act passed in 1829.
Funds were raised for the building from 1840 and actual construction began in 1849. Donations came from people in the town, around Ireland and from North America, and the architect James Joseph McCarthy was commissioned to design the church, which he had done with several others in Ireland.
The neo-Gothic church was consecrated in 1873, but at that time it was not finished. There were no funds to complete the bell tower, and therefore that part of the construction did not start until the year 1900. Three years later the whole church was built, and it can be seen from large parts of Londonderry/Derry.
This is a small but very atmospheric church, located in a place where over the centuries there have been churches and monasteries. The earliest was St. Columban Monastery, founded in 546.
The current church was consecrated in 1872, and it was built in the Neo-Gothic style. The interior is beautiful, and so is the view from the area in front of the church. Here you can also see one of the city’s old cemeteries, whose first gravestone dates back to an English soldier who was buried in 1603.
In this place you can see an exhibition about St. Columban, considered the founder of Londonderry/Derry. The exhibition puts the city’s history into perspective with a review of significant later events.
St. The Columba Heritage Center is housed in a school building from the 19th century, which is located by the church of St. Columba’s Church. You can also learn about the history of the building by visiting the site.
In Londonderry/Derry is the Tower Museum, which is housed in one of the towers in the city’s city walls and defenses from the 17th century. This makes the building itself interesting, and this also applies to the museum’s exhibitions.
The Tower Museum functions as a city museum, and in the exhibition “The Story of Derry” the city’s history is told from early times to the present day. You can also see the exhibition “An Armada Shipwreck – La Trinadad Valencera”. It retells the story of one of the largest ships in the Spanish armada. The ship sank off the coast of Donegal in 1588 and was recovered by local divers in 1971.
Also remember to go up the tower while you are at the museum. From the top there is a breathtaking view of Londonderry/Derry and the surrounding countryside. And after a visit to the museum, you can take a walk along the city wall, which is immediately in front of the Tower Museum.
The Peace Bridge is one of Londonderry/Derry’s modern landmarks. The bridge is open to pedestrians and cyclists and spans the River Foyle. The 235-metre-long bridge was designed with two leaning piers by engineering firm AECOM and opened in 2011.
The inauguration took place in the presence of the First Minister of Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland and the EU Commissioner for Regional Affairs. The representatives symbolized that the bridge was part of the peace in the city, where it could connect the Protestant unionists on the east bank with the Catholic nationalists on the west bank.
This area housed Ebrington Barracks until 2003. The barracks were built in 1841 and were named after Hugh Fortescue, who held the title of Viscount Ebrington. After the barracks moved to Shackleton Barracks, the barracks parade ground was developed into the current Ebrington Square.
Around the square you can see a number of preserved buildings from the time such as Ebrington Barracks. They form a fine setting for the beautifully landscaped square, with the River Foyle forming the western boundary. Along the river you can see the art installation Mute Meadow, which consists of 40 pairs of columns that are beautifully illuminated in the evening.
At this museum you can learn about the great emigration that took place from Ireland during the 1700s and 1900s. The museum is part of the National Museum of Northern Ireland and its focus is on the immigrants who left the province of Ulster in favor of North America.
The museum was founded in 1976, and it was established around the house Mellon House, which was the birthplace of the Irish-American banker Thomas Mellon. One can see the Mellon House and also built up areas of both the Old World in Europe and the New World in America. In this way, you can follow the journey the emigrants set out on.
Ireland is known for several things, and one of them is Irish whiskey. Old Bushmills is an alcohol distillery that primarily produces whiskey, so a visit to the site is a good opportunity to gain an insight into the creation of the traditional drink.
Bushmills’ whiskey dates back to 1608, when the site’s landowner received royal permission to distill whiskey, which has happened since then with various interruptions along the way. The company behind Old Bushmills itself was founded in 1784.
Fort Dunree is a fortress perched dramatically on the cliffs of Ireland’s northern coast. The fort was built in 1812-1813 during the Napoleonic Wars, and it was supposed to protect the fjord Lough Swilly together with Knockalla Fort on the opposite bank of the fjord. After the peace in 1815, the fort came to rest for a number of years.
In the latter part of the 19th century, cannon positions were established at Fort Dunree, which, after the confederation agreement called the Anglo-Irish Treaty from 1921, remained in British hands despite the founding of the Irish Free State. The fort was handed over to the Republic of Ireland in 1938.
Today, Fort Dunree is no longer an active part of the country’s defense and it is set up as a military museum. Here there are various exciting exhibitions, and of course you can also see the interior of the old fortification.
With 16,000 hectares, Glenveagh is one of the Republic of Ireland’s largest national parks, and here you can experience beautiful nature around the lake Lough Veagh and the castle Glenveagh Castle, which was built by John George Adair in the years 1870-1873.
In the national park you can see beautiful mountains, clear lakes, waterfalls and forests, which provide a varied nature with many distinguished views over the landscape. The park is well laid out with many different hiking trails, so it is relatively easy to enjoy the area.
If you want to see a very planned lushness, then the trip to the castle park Glenveagh Castle Gardens is worth a trip. The park was laid out with various gardens in the 1880s and is still as it was in Victorian times. It is also possible to visit Glenveagh Castle.
On the north coast of Northern Ireland lies the Giant’s Causeway, an unforgettable encounter with nature in the form of around 40,000 basalt columns. Most are hexagonal, and the tallest are up to 12 meters high. The site is included in UNESCO’s World Natural Heritage List, and it was created through volcanic activity.
You can take a walk along the coast and see the Giant’s Causeway, which is spread over several places of interest. The Grand Causeway is the largest of three rock outcrops that make up the Giant’s Causeway. Along the coast you can also see the boot-shaped rock called the Giant’s Boot, and you can also take a seat in the Wishing Chair, a naturally formed throne-like formation.
Belfast is located on the river Lagan and is the largest city and capital of Northern Ireland. It is a city with many sights that come from the city’s historic role as an important British port and industrial city.
One of the famous industries in the city was the shipyard Harland and Wolff, which built the Titanic and the sister ships to the White Star Line. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, and the ship’s brief history is depicted at the impressive museum, the Titanic Belfast.
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Overview of Londonderry Derry
Londonderry, also called Derry, is one of Northern Ireland’s most exciting cities. It has a rich history and many sights, and it is all located in a clear city center, where there is never far between the experiences that are to come.
The city is known, among other things, for its city walls that surround the center. The city walls were built at the beginning of the 17th century to protect the Protestant immigrants from England and Scotland, and the walls are still intact. Together with the Guildhall, several churches and museums, they are the city’s major attractions.
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The so-called Apprentice Boys are today an association which commemorates the city’s defense against the Catholic King James II’s siege of Londonderry/Derry in 1688-1689. James II was England’s last Catholic king, and Londonderry/Derry was at the time a Protestant stronghold.
The siege of the city began in December 1688, when 13 apprentices, the Apprentice Boys, closed the gates of Londonderry/Derry to 1,200 advancing soldiers. The siege lasted until July 1689, when ships breached the barriers on the River Foyle and brought supplies to the city. About half the population had died during the siege from starvation and injuries during the defensive struggle.
In two buildings next to each other are the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall and The Siege Museum, where you can see an exhibition that describes the siege and in many ways depicts contemporary life in the city and during the siege.
This is a museum that depicts part of the recent local history of Londonderry/Derry. The story of Free Derry started with the establishment of a civil rights movement that, among other things, wanted the established constituencies changed so that they favored the nationalists, who in many places were in the majority, to a greater extent.
At the beginning of January 1969, there were battles between nationalists and unionists, and the nationalists meet in the Bogside quarter. Here they established Free Derry, which was the name of an area of the city that the nationalists proclaimed as independent between 1969 and 1972. The area’s residents built barricades and armed themselves to prevent the police and military from entering.
Throughout the three years of Free Derry there were several battles, and on 30 January 1972, 13 protesters were killed when a march was fired upon by British soldiers. Later that year, on 31 July 1972, the British authorities entered the Free Derry quarter, marking the end of Free Derry. This entire history can be experienced at the museum, and in the surrounding streets you can take a walk in the neighborhood where the events took place.
Free Derry Corner is a site and monument to the time when there were battles between the population groups in Londonderry/Derry in the 1900s. At the intersection of the streets Lecky Road and Fahan Street you can see the wall where the famous words “You are now entering Free Derry” were written in 1969. It happened as part of the self-proclaimed Free Derry, which operated between 1969 and 1972.
The wall with the black writing was originally a house gable, but the gable’s house and some of the surrounding ones have been demolished for many years, and therefore the wall stands in the middle of Lecky Road. To the north of the gable you can see a large H, which is a memorial to the Republican Northern Irish hunger strike in 1981. If you go further north, you can see the Bloody Sunday Monument, which commemorates the Bloody Sunday that took place on 20 January 1972.
St. Columb’s Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral in Londonderry/Derry, and it is thus part of the Church of Ireland. The church is dedicated to St. Columban, who was an Irish monk and missionary. Columban was born in 521 in Donegal and he lived until about 593.
Before the current cathedral, there was a church on the site, which was destroyed during the Nine Years’ War, fought 1594-1603 between Irish chieftains and the English rule in Ireland. During the war, the church was first destroyed, and in the year 1600 the Englishman Sir Henry Docwra came to the city with 4,000 soldiers. He had the church ruins torn down to use the stones for walls and fortification of the city.
The current cathedral was completed in 1633. It was the first church to be built as an Anglican cathedral in the British Isles, and it was also the first non-Catholic cathedral to be built in Western Europe. It was William Parratt from London who built the church, and the architecture became a beautiful and contemporary example of the Gothic style in England in the 17th century.
The interior of the cathedral is impressive. The beautiful stone walls provide a framework for solid columns, elegant joinery, stained glass windows and other details worth seeing. The church space has been changed several times since the church was built. It happened i.a. during a major rebuild in the 1860s, where most of the impression today was created.
Like several other places in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland, there are two cathedrals in Londonderry/Derry. St. Eugene’s Cathedral is the city’s Catholic cathedral and thereby the seat of the Catholic bishop. The construction of the church was made possible by the Roman Catholic Relief Act passed in 1829.
Funds were raised for the building from 1840 and actual construction began in 1849. Donations came from people in the town, around Ireland and from North America, and the architect James Joseph McCarthy was commissioned to design the church, which he had done with several others in Ireland.
The neo-Gothic church was consecrated in 1873, but at that time it was not finished. There were no funds to complete the bell tower, and therefore that part of the construction did not start until the year 1900. Three years later the whole church was built, and it can be seen from large parts of Londonderry/Derry.
This is a small but very atmospheric church, located in a place where over the centuries there have been churches and monasteries. The earliest was St. Columban Monastery, founded in 546.
The current church was consecrated in 1872, and it was built in the Neo-Gothic style. The interior is beautiful, and so is the view from the area in front of the church. Here you can also see one of the city’s old cemeteries, whose first gravestone dates back to an English soldier who was buried in 1603.
In this place you can see an exhibition about St. Columban, considered the founder of Londonderry/Derry. The exhibition puts the city’s history into perspective with a review of significant later events.
St. The Columba Heritage Center is housed in a school building from the 19th century, which is located by the church of St. Columba’s Church. You can also learn about the history of the building by visiting the site.
In Londonderry/Derry is the Tower Museum, which is housed in one of the towers in the city’s city walls and defenses from the 17th century. This makes the building itself interesting, and this also applies to the museum’s exhibitions.
The Tower Museum functions as a city museum, and in the exhibition “The Story of Derry” the city’s history is told from early times to the present day. You can also see the exhibition “An Armada Shipwreck – La Trinadad Valencera”. It retells the story of one of the largest ships in the Spanish armada. The ship sank off the coast of Donegal in 1588 and was recovered by local divers in 1971.
Also remember to go up the tower while you are at the museum. From the top there is a breathtaking view of Londonderry/Derry and the surrounding countryside. And after a visit to the museum, you can take a walk along the city wall, which is immediately in front of the Tower Museum.
The Peace Bridge is one of Londonderry/Derry’s modern landmarks. The bridge is open to pedestrians and cyclists and spans the River Foyle. The 235-metre-long bridge was designed with two leaning piers by engineering firm AECOM and opened in 2011.
The inauguration took place in the presence of the First Minister of Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland and the EU Commissioner for Regional Affairs. The representatives symbolized that the bridge was part of the peace in the city, where it could connect the Protestant unionists on the east bank with the Catholic nationalists on the west bank.
This area housed Ebrington Barracks until 2003. The barracks were built in 1841 and were named after Hugh Fortescue, who held the title of Viscount Ebrington. After the barracks moved to Shackleton Barracks, the barracks parade ground was developed into the current Ebrington Square.
Around the square you can see a number of preserved buildings from the time such as Ebrington Barracks. They form a fine setting for the beautifully landscaped square, with the River Foyle forming the western boundary. Along the river you can see the art installation Mute Meadow, which consists of 40 pairs of columns that are beautifully illuminated in the evening.
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