Derry, I’m here too.
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Anto Its Derry not Londonderry.Ask Derry City Council.Refered to as L’Derry by the unionist minority of the city whom once gerrymandered the city.Just because the Queen calls it L’Derry dosent mean you do to.Rant over
@mcdanish wrote:
Anto Its Derry not Londonderry.Ask Derry City Council.Refered to as L’Derry by the unionist minority of the city whom once gerrymandered the city.Just because the Queen calls it L’Derry dosent mean you do to.Rant over
By posting the photos.. I was hoping to start a discussion about the buildings up there – not the name of the darned place!
Very PC Fearg, but you should have seen that one coming. The very use of the name Londonderry is like a red rag to a bull for a lot of people and rightly so in my opinion when one considers the historical aspect. I believe the name chage is going through the courts up there at the moment so hopefully that will result in Derry being properly recognised. I realise this is not a political forum but it`s not something you can just ignore. Nuff said.
Here are a couple of more pictures of buildings in a certain city in the North West..
Gt James Street Presbyterian, sadly disused:
[ATTACH]3742[/ATTACH]Tower and Spire of St Eugene’s Cathedral – its got 2 near sisters on the island, can anyone name them?
[ATTACH]3743[/ATTACH]Another view of St Eugene’s
[ATTACH]3744[/ATTACH]@Praxiteles wrote:
Any images of the Walker monument?
Here is one of the plaque on the plinth – don’t know why I didn’t take a proper photo of the stump..
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When the UK’s Queen mother died recently BBC NI did a feature where they interviewed certain grandees who had met the old drunk. One Orange Man had met her twice; the second time they met he was disappointed she didn’t remember him so he reminded her he was from the Orange Lodge in Londonderry. According to him she appeared distracted, began to walk away, then spun on her heel and replied ‘oh! you mean Derry!’. To which he responded, ‘well if Derry’s good enough for you, it’s good enough for me!’.
So that’s it settled, if Britain’s last Queen-Empress, the nationalists of Derry and virtually everybody on this board, not to mention local Protestants whom by all accounts agree, it is Derry. The only people I’ve ever heard it calling it Londonderry are gullible cartographers, Belfast Protestants and apologists for a psuedo fascist regime in Dublin who think that they are somehow being helpful call it Londonderry.
There again, as a southern Protestant who despises Ulster Unionism I guess I’ll always be somewhat biased!
That First Presbyterian Church is really a beauty, what a lovely stone. I would like to visit Derry pity it’s so far away.
Are Irish people unnaturally pedantic.?… I’ve just been reading about daingle
asmodeus wrote:When the UK’s Queen mother died recently BBC NI did a feature where they interviewed certain grandees who had met the old drunk. One Orange Man had met her twice]Please, a little respect for the late Queen-Empress. Whatever else she was always extremely generous with her refreshments at Cheltenham!!!
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