Spanish historian José Antonio Sierra has visited Derry to speak about his efforts to celebrate the life of a young local revolutionary, Robert Boyd, who is regarded as a hero in Spain.
Frankie McMenamin was born in February 1964 and lived with his parents and siblings in Howard Street in the heart of the Bogside over the battle of the Bogside era.
Lieutenant Robert Boyd became famous when he was martyred in Malaga for his role in General Jose Maria de Torrijo’s rebellion against the despotic King of Spain, Ferdinand VII, in 1831.
This year’s Gasyard Féile will commemorate and celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bogside with a two-day open air Fleadh next Friday and Saturday, August 16 and 17.
Derry Girls’ ‘Sister Michael’ star Siobhan McSweeney and ‘Sleeping With The Enemy’ actor Patrick Bergin will be among those performing in Derry and Donegal over the coming days at the Lughnasa FrielFest.
Local witches and wizards have gathered in the city centre to join Mayor Michaela Boyle at the summer launch party for Derry & Strabane’s 2019 Hallowe’en celebrations.
The flag flown at the time of the assassination of President John F Kennedy at the US Naval base in Derry in 1963 has been presented to Foyle College at a memorial dedication ceremony.
It was an emotional day for the daughters and grand-daughters of the original “19 Mothers” of Springtown Camp who gathered at Derry’s Guildhall last Thursday to recreate an iconic image that has come to symbolise the “we’ve had enough” attitude of a group of long-suffering Derry women.
People are being given the chance to own a little piece of history as one of Derry’s oldest homes has gone up for sale for the first time in almost a century.
A Derry man has recalled how he and his family narrowly escaped being killed when a booby-trap bomb went off close to their Brandywell home in 1973 weeks after the killing of an Irish army soldier on the same street.
If you ever enjoyed a night out in the Metro, Beckett's, Downey's Bar, Wetherspoons (the Diamond), the Ice Wharf and the Bogside Inn in 2007 you may have been snapped by one of the 'Journal' photographers.
