OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - September 1996
In September 1996 the Derry Journal was inundated with phone calls complaining about what one angry reader called a ‘malodorous stench’ that had taken over the city in recent days; Garda checkpoints along Donegal border crossings, in existence since the emergence of the BSE crisis in March, continued; Strabane District Council was told it had a ‘moral duty’ to buy a collection encompassing the life and works of one of the town’s most famous literary sons, Brian O’Nolan - aka Flann O’Brien.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Sep 2021, 16:55 BST
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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.