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Patrick's Day. Bobby Kennedy killed Marilyn Monroe claims ex-boyfriend, "Godfather" actor. What puzzled them was that the Apprentice Boys of Derry were objecting to the fact that the local council had changed its name to Derry City Council.
Could Dunseith explain? Some will point out that whereas there was a city called Doire before the London Companies arrived, there was no county, so that the county must be called Londonderry. Coulter [a senior Boy] agreed that the Apprentice Boys called it Derry, and that he did so himself. But if he was writing, he used Londonderry. In the end, he said proudly, they had reached agreement.
View the discussion thread. When Ireland was divvied up between the North and the Republic in the early s, Derry's waterway — the River Foyle — was a logical border. But, for sentimental and economic reasons, the Protestant North kept all of this predominantly Catholic Nationalist city.
Subsequently, the two sides have fought over its status. Even its name has been a source of dispute. It's "Derry" to the Catholics and "Londonderry" to the Protestants. I once asked a Northern Ireland rail employee for a ticket to Derry; he replied that there was no such place. Still, I call it "Derry" since that's what most of the city's inhabitants do. The name has a good pedigree, dating back to In that year the holy St.
Columba established a monastic citadel here. He chose a hilltop site in the middle of an oak grove, or "doire.
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