Interested in taking part in a major archaeological dig in Derry?
This September a major archaeological dig will take place on the grassy bank just below our famous City Walls above the Bogside. This dig will be facilitated by Queen’s University Centre for Community Archaeology and is kindly supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Members of the public, schools, community groups and really anyone interested in helping for a few hours and getting their hands dirty, can register to take part in the Derry Town Ditch Dig scheduled for this September.
The Friends of The Derry Walls is delighted to announce a Walking Tour titled ‘Living on an Island – landscape and stories.’ This tour along the length of the Island of Derry will be given by Dr Liam Campbell, from Gallows Strand to the Gullet. This event is part of Foyle Maritime Festival
Liam Campbell explores the Walls and the Island City in it’s wider river landscape context in Derry, Donegal and Tyrone, maintaining that we cannot understand the Walls unless we look at the relationship that they have with the Foyle, the Swilly and indeed wider Atlantic.
Liam Campbell is Director of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies based at the Ulster American Folk Park. He has published and lectured widely on heritage and environmental issues. Prior to that he worked as a television producer for some 20 years before returning to academia. He is a visiting lecturer at East Tennessee State University where he spent a year as Basler Chair for Integration of the Arts and Sciences in 2018. With undergraduate degrees from NUI Maynooth and masters degrees from both Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University, he completed his PhD at Ulster University. His recent book Room for the River – The Foyle Catchment Landscape : Connecting People, Place and Nature has just been reprinted in paperback. He has just co-edited an Atlas of Lough Neagh’s built, natural and cultural heritage.
The Friends of the Derry Walls 2024 program is kindly sponsored this year by Inner City Trust
The Walking Tour will leave the Verbal Arts Centre, Stable Lane, Derry, sharp at 10:30am on Saturday 29th June Tickets are through Eventbrite atthe link below or on the morning of the event.
‘Limer-Derry’. Illustrated talk by Sarah McCutcheon, Archaeologist, Limerick City and County Council, on Limerick’s City Walls and the Siege of Limerick.
“An introduction to the evolution of Limerick City and its defences up to 1760 when it was declared an open city, and focussing on the final two sieges of 1690 & 1691″
Members get a 50% discount, at the door on the night!
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The final talk in the Winter/Spring lecture series takes place on Thursday 8th March 2018 at 7pm in the Playhouse Theatre on Artillery Street
Near the end of 1618, 400 years ago this year, Captain Nicholas Pynnar, the official Inspector of Fortifications in Ireland, was appointed to survey the progress of the Ulster Plantation and specifically, the Works and Plantation performed by the City of London in the City and County of London-Derry so it is very appropriate that the title of Thursday evening’s lecture will be ‘Mapping the Plantation City’.
Dr Annaleigh Margey, Lecturer in History at Dundalk Institute of Technology will discuss the place of the walls in landscape and in perception with a particular focus on the livery company maps of the Londonderry Plantation. While to modern viewers, they appear as basic drawings with little by way of modern cartographic expectation, the maps became fundamental tools in the development and shaping of plantation landscapes in the city and county.
Annaleigh is a Lecturer in History at Dundalk Institute of Technology. She studied for her BA and PhD at NUI, Galway. Her PhD research titled ‘Mapping during the Irish Plantations, 1550- 1636’, focused on the surveys and maps created by surveyors in Ireland during the decades of plantation. She subsequently held an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and a J.B. Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography to continue this research at Trinity College Dublin. More recently, Annaleigh has worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen on ‘The 1641 Depositions Project’ and at the Institute of Historical Research, London where she conducted research on the property and charity of the Clothworkers’ Company in early modern London. She has also worked as a researcher on a project at NUI, Maynooth and the National Library of Ireland focusing on the rentals and maps in the landed estates of Ireland collections in the library’s holdings. She has recently been awarded an R.J. Hunter Bursary to further her work on the plantations in Ireland, focusing specifically on the ‘Towns and the Londonderry plantation, 1609-1709: the urban network of a plantation county’. Most recently, she has edited a book with her colleagues Elaine Murphy and Eamon Darcy on The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion, and will shortly publish another book Mapping Ireland, c.1550-1636: a catalogue of the early modern manuscript maps of Ireland with the Irish Manuscripts Commission. She has written several articles on early modern mapping in Ireland, particularly on Ulster, and on the 1641 depositions.
If you haven’t already done so you can book your place through the Derry Walls website www.thederrywalls.com/events
