Andrew Young wrote this philosophical little poem when, in 1863, after 93 years, Derry’s wooden bridge was being replaced by the iron Carlisle Bridge.
The Bloody Sunday March marking the 53rd anniversary of the killing of 13 unarmed Derry citizens by the British Army during an anti-internment civil rights march on January 30, 1972 has been marked in the city.
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