OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - September 1996
By Kevin Mullan
Published 27th Sep 2021, 12:23 BST
In September 1996 the passengers and crew of the Silver Cloud, the first six star cruise liner ever to visit Derry, were given the red carpet treatment when it dropped anchor; Moville man Liam Ferrie’s ‘The Irish Emigrant’, believed to be the longest running, regularly published newsletter on the Internet, reached another milestone with the publication of its 500th edition; the first new hotel on Derry’s west bank since the outbreak of the Troubles, the Trinity Hotel, opened at a cost of £3.6m.
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One of the last senior classes of St. Patrick’s National School, Drumfries, pictured outside their old schoolhouse which was opened in 1838.
Mr. Donnell Deeny, Q.C., Chairman of the Arts Council of NI, pictured with the Deputy Mayor of Derry, Councillor Martin Bradley, and Mr. Sam Burnside, director, Verbal Arts Centre, at the announcement of the £1,151,310 Lottery Grant for the Verbal Arts Centre, at the former First Derry Presbyterian School, Derry.