Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Presbyttery Yearbook 1912


Another Ebay find:

"PRESBYTERY OF DERRY YEAR BOOK FOR 1912. Printed Standard Printing Works Shipquay Street. Photo on front cover of Fahan Presbyterian Church. 98 pages, ads. Financial reports and usual lists etc."

Friday, June 25, 2010

Terror in Northern Ireland

ebay item description:

"1st edition 1969, Terror in Northern Ireland, 20 page pamphlet The True Story details the events from August 12in Derry, Headers = POLICE had CIVILAIN HELP, SHOTS FIRED into BOGSIDE, WHO DECIDED on GAS, TROUBLE BOILS up in BELFAST ... BACKLASH, PORTERS MONUMENTAL BLUNDER, RUC ARMORED VEHICLES in ACTION, POLICE FIRED at CROWDS ...THE HOSTAGES of HOOKER STREET, JOCULAR MAGISTRATE, I AM BLIND in ONE EYE, NIGHT THAT MEN DIED ...PRIEST UNDER FIRE ...I ASKED HIM TO SHOOT ME ..THE MAN WHO DIED IN ARMAGH, INTIMIDATION GOES ON AND ON ..."

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Atlantic Memorial - The Foyle and Western Approaches 1939-1945. By D.Francis, B/Lacey and J.Mullen.

ATLANTIC MEMORIAL.

The Foyle and Western Approaches 1939-1945. By D.Francis, B/Lacey and J.Mullen. Published Derry City Council. A souvenir Catalogue of the Exhibition. 95 pages, wartime photos on every page, map of Derry.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Road to Derry - A Brief History by Richard Holmes


When the Ulster Scots arrived in New Hampshire in 1719, there were no roads in Derry (then called Nutfield). Led by the Reverend James McGregor, the 'Moses of the Scotch-Irish in America,' the entire congregation of Aghadowey had trekked from their home county of Londonderry, Ireland, to start their lives anew, undeterred by British prejudice or Anglican intolerance. These hardy men and women were great walkers, and during the eighteenth century a warren of footpaths crisscrossed East Derry Hill. Richard Holmes retraces their footsteps, walking the road of Derry's history from its rough-and-tumble politics and early educational institutions through its dramatic split from Londonderry Parish to the sprawling shoe factories of the Industrial Revolution. In this first history in decades, Holmes demonstrates that the hometown of Robert Frost and astronaut Alan Shepherd is also home to a hardworking, free-thinking, vibrant community.