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 at the link below or on the morning of the event.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-on-an-island-landscape-and-stories-tickets-929348726057
