Here we are Standing on both sides and along the bridges. Not a word. Not words. Not words at all. Not any words. (Lemn Sissay) The Peace Bridge, Derry

Wednesday, 27^th May

Derry

The quote above suggests that the pictures will tell today’s story. We are saturated, inside and out, by Derry’s history and rain. We did a walking tour around the walls in the morning, in the rain. To get refuge from the rain we did  a tour of the Tower Museum, The Craft Village, the Guild Hall. We also walked across the Peace Bridge, walked to the Hands Across the Divide sculpture and saw the Bogside Murals, in the rain. All very interesting, informative and moving. And wet.

The Millennium Forum Theatre Mosaic

The Guild Hall

Stained Glass window in Guild Hall tribute to Australian servicemen

The Peace Bridge

Hands Across the Divide

BOGSIDE MURALS

Peace, the dove symbolises St Columba (a Derry Saint) and the oak leaf is a symbol of Derry. Derry comes from Daoire (Irish for oak grove)

The Hunger Strikers

John Hume(Irish Nobel Peace Prize), Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela

Guernica (Picasso)

Third of May 1808 (Goya)

Saturday Matinee

Bloody Sunday Memorial

The Runners

Operation Motorman (British Army)

Bloody Sunday

Petrol Bomber

Bernadette (Bernadette Devlin and a woman banging dust bin lid, warning the neighbourhood of approaching British soldiers)

Death of Innocence (a 14 year old schoolgirl gunned down, the 100th person to die in The Troubles) 

Bloody Sunday Commemoration (14 victims and 14 oak leaves)

a family memorial at the bottom of the wall

End British Internment

views of Bogside