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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DKM_donegal-corridor_Arcadia-FL.html
During the Second World War (1939-1945) Sunderland and Catalina Flying Boats from RAF Castle Archdale were given permission by the neutral Irish Free State government to fly along the River Erne between Belleek and Ballyshannon. This was known as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CSI_mc-nutt-phelan-and-mc-shane-memorial_Londonderry-MD.html
In proud and loving memory of
I.N.L.A. Volunteer Colm Mc NuttKilled in Action 12th Decembert 1977
Comrade Patrick "Hessy" PhelanMurdered in New York, 21st January 1996
Comrade Dermot "Tonto" Mc ShaneMurdered by British Army, 13th July 199…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CSH_battle-of-the-bogside_Londonderry-MD.html
[Side A]On 12 August 1969, as the Apprentice Boys Parade passed the edge of the Bogside, nationalists clashed with parade followers and police. The police and loyalists followed the nationalists back into the Bogside, where defences had been prepa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CSG_the-peace-mural_Londonderry-MD.html
This mural shows a dove and an oak leaf, as symbols of hope for the city's future. The dove is the name of St Columba, the city's founder, who is said to have built his monastery in an oak grove. The background mosaic of the colours of the spectru…
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/HM1CPJ_castle-balfour_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
Castle Balfour, built for Sir James Balfour of Glenawley by about 1620, was one of many castles designed to secure the plantation in Ulster during the 17th century. It is of the Scottish-style strong house type, identifiable by such characteristic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CP2_bloody-sunday_Londonderry-IN.html
On 30 January 1972, a massive British military operation in Derry's Bogside ended in the murder of thirteen unarmed civil rights demonstrators and the wounding of fifteen others - one of whom died later of his injuries on 16 June 1972.
The Brit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1COG_motorman_Londonderry-IN.html
Free Derry ended at 4am on 30th July 1972 when thousands of British troops in tanks and armoured cars invaded the Bogside and Creggan 'no-go' areas. During Operation Motorman, they tore down the barricades with bulldozers. The Artists chose the im…