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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CSC_hunger-strike_Londonderry-AL.html
This mural depicts one of the surviving hunger strikers as he looked after 53 days without food. He was one of seven men who went on hunger strike at the Maze prison in Belfast from 28th October, 1980 in protest against loss of their rights as pol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CSB_bloody-sunday_Londonderry-AL.html
On 30 January 1972 the ?elite' British Parachute Regiment opened fire on a peaceful civil rights march along this street, killing 14 unarmed marchers and wounding 14 more. The dead and wounded were labelled gunmen and bombers by a partisan British…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CSA_civil-rights_Londonderry-AL.html
This mural captures the mood of a typical civil rights march in the years up to 1972. Inspired by the civil disobedience campaign of Martin Luther King in the United States, young and old, Catholics and Protestants, politicians and mothers took to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJ9_new-gate_Londonderry-AL.html
In 1787 the walls were breached for the first time to improve access to the city centre. It is said that the gate was built to cope with crowds flocking to the New Theatre in Artillery Street but was closed in 1799 due to complaints from the audie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJ7_demi-culverin-cannon_Londonderry-AL.html
Livery Companies of theCity of LondonDemi-culverin (C4)Bore 4.92," Length 90,"Weight 2795lb
Sent to the city in May-June 1642 by theWorshipful Company of Salters.Probably cast by John Browne at one of his works in Kent.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CFR_guildhall-square_Londonderry-AL.html
City under siegeThe city was twice besieged for over a hundred days. In 1649 the garrison held out against royalist troops during the English Civil War. Forty years later the city supported Protestant William III against Catholic James II in their…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CFQ_free-entire-and-perfect_Londonderry-AL.html
A city fit for war and merchandise...for ever a free, entire and perfect city and county of itself, to be called the city and county of Derrie.Charter from James I, 1604
One City...Fifty NamesAll of the city's names over the centuries refer bac…