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unusual facts about Guildhall, Derry



Anthony Tohill

He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side, also winning two Ulster Championships and four National League titles with the county.

Anton Hegarty

Hegarty was born on 14 December 1892, in Derry, Ireland, the son of Isabel (Isabella) and John Hegarty.

Basinghall Street

The Mayor's and City of London Court is also located on the western side, with its entrance just off the street at Guildhall Buildings.

BBC Radio Leicester

This new centre is adjacent to the medieval Guildhall and Cathedral and includes many aspects of Leicester's history including Victorian tiles and an Undercroft (first revealed in 1841) with remains dating to Roman times.

Ben O'Sullivan

He made his debut for Bohemians in 1965 and spent the next 3 years at Dalymount Park before signing for Derry City.

Cathedral Quarter, Derby

These include Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby Central Library, Derby Local Studies Library, The Silk Mill, Déda, The QUAD, The Assembly Rooms, The Guildhall, Derby Tourist Information centre and, of course, Derby Cathedral.

Colum Eastwood

In 2012 he drew criticism from Unionists including Jim Allister after carrying the coffin at the paramilitary funeral of a former INLA member in Derry.A masked Real IRA gunman fired a volley of shots over the coffin,although Eastwood stated he was not present at the time of the gunfire.

Creggan

Creggan, Derry, a large housing estate in Derry, Northern Ireland

Crowley, Polk County, Oregon

Crowley was a station on the Southern Pacific Railroad between Derry and McCoy, established in 1892 as "Crowleys" and named for Solomon Kimsey Crowley.

David E. Potter

He has written and lectured widely on technology and the new economy, including the Stockton Lecture at London Business School in 1998, one of the Millennium Lectures at 10 Downing Street in 1999, and the Tacitus Lecture, 2000 at the Guildhall.

Declan Devine

He was on the move again the following season and ended up with Institute, becoming one of the many players who have played for the two clubs in the Derry.

Derry GAA honours

Ballymaguigan's Jim McKeever won the inaugural award in 1958, while Henry Downey of the Lavey club received player of the year for his performances in helping Derry win the 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Dual naming

"Derry/Londonderry" has been used unofficially to circumvent the Derry/Londonderry name dispute, in which Irish nationalists used "Derry" and Ulster unionists use "Londonderry" for the city and county in Northern Ireland.

Ebenezer Prout

His son Louis Beethoven Prout (b. Hackney, 1864) was also a writer on musical theory, having trained under his father at the Royal Academy, and becoming professor at the Guildhall School.

Frederik Vermehren

His works were exhibited at the exhibition "Danish Painters" at Guildhall, London, in 1907.

Free Derry Corner

When the British Home Secretary, Jim Callaghan, visited Derry in August 1969, the "Free Derry" wall was painted white and the "You are now entering Free Derry" sign was professionally re-painted in black lettering.

Gene Calderazzo

Gene Calderazzo is an American jazz drummer, born in New York, but currently residing in the United Kingdom, where he is a visiting tutor at the Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity and the Guildhall.

Grace Chia

In the UK, she performed her poetry as part of an artistic multimedia ensemble at the Royal College of Art and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Vuk Krakovic and Len Massey.

High Sheriff of Londonderry

High Sheriff of County Londonderry, with responsibilities in County Londonderry outside the city of Derry

Hillbilly's

Today the chain has nine locations throughout Ireland, including three restaurants in Cork, and restaurants in Derry, Dublin, Ennis, Letterkenny, Tralee, and Waterford.

History of Fianna Fáil

Many thought that the Republic was about to invade the North, and contingency plans were drawn up by the Irish Army to take Derry and Newry.

Horley

In 1602 it became the property of Christ's Hospital in London and the original map of the manor is now held at the Guildhall in the City of London.

Institute F.C.

The club, founded in 1905, are based in the Drumahoe area of Derry and play their home matches at the Riverside Stadium in the YMCA Grounds.

Jim Coburn

Coburn graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, and worked in a shoe factory before joining the United States Air Force.

John Langdon Down

He was descended on his father's side from an Irish family, his great-great grandfather having been Catholic bishop of Derry.

Jonathan Cullen

Alongside his acting career, Cullen has also worked as a director and as a teacher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, the American Conservatory Theater School (San Francisco) and the British American Drama Academy (London).

Kevin Cassidy

While young, Cassidy's childhood football heroes were Derry's Anthony Tohill, Seán Óg de Paor of Galway and Donegal's Anthony Molloy.

Kieran McKeever

He is chiefly known as a footballer and was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side, also won Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1993 and 1998.

Kilcronaghan

On 29 March, 1609, a Papal Bull from Pope Paul V gave Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, the "advowson of certain Rectories and Perpetual Vicarages on the dioceses of Armagh and Derry, respectively".

Larry Reilly

The Knockbride clubman helped Cavan by scoring 2pts to claim their only Ulster Senior Football Championship title in 28 years, beating Derry in Clones.

Liam Coyle

After 3 goals in 9 total appearances he moved to his home town club making his Derry debut alongside Tim Dalton, Kevin Brady, Paul Doolin and Noel Larkin at Finn Park in an Ulster Tyre Cup game on 24 July 1988.

Lord Leycester Hospital

The Guildhall was built in 1450 by the 16th Earl of Warwick.

Loreto College, Coleraine

Barry McGoldrick and Sean Leo McGoldrick (brothers) - Current Derry Gaelic footballers

Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Lower Paxtang Township embraced the areas now known as Lower Swatara, Swatara, Lower Paxton, Derry and Susquehanna Townships.

Mac Con Midhe

There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the river Foyle in the deanery of Derry, and they are recorded as such as late as 1606 when Bishop Montgomery's survey of the diocese was made.

McCorkell Line

The family have continued to serve Londonderry throughout the twentieth century, Sir Dudley McCorkell was the Mayor of Derry from 1930 to 1934 and attended the Ottawa Conference on Trade in 1933.

Official Irish Republican Army

However it retained a strong presence in certain localities, notably the Lower Falls, Andersonstown, Turf Lodge and the Markets areas of Belfast, along with a big presence in Derry but particularly Free Derry in the Bogside area as well as Newry and South Down.

Ontario Highway 409

Instead of continuing northwest from Highway 427 and through Malton's four-corners at Derry Road and Airport Road towards Brampton, it would curve southwest and provide access to the developing Pearson Airport.

Paddy Toland

Paddy Toland is the coach of the current Middle and Light Middleweight kickboxing champion, Tommy McCafferty (born in Letterkenny, Ireland) and the ISKA World Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion, Daniel Quigley (born in Derry City, Northern Ireland).

Scotshouse

There are two and coming gifted people including Dr. Éamonn Ó Ciardha, lecturer in University of Ulster in Magee Campus Derry City and graduate of Cambridge University, and Dr. Eoghan O'Mordha, historian and archaeologist and a graduate of Oxford University.

Scouting in West Midlands

Since then it has had 34 Royal performances, appearing in events and venues such as Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, St Paul's Cathedral, the Royal Tournament, Wembley Stadium, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, London's Guild Hall, The Lord Mayor's Show, Horse Guards Parade, Coventry Cathedral, the Spalding Flower Parade, London's Easter Parade, and the Jersey Battle of Flowers.

Setanta Sports Cup

Cup holders Crusaders, 2012 FAI Cup winners Derry City, 2011–12 IFA Premiership champions Linfield and 2012 League of Ireland champions Sligo Rovers entered the competition in the quarter-finals, with the remaining eight clubs entering in the first round.

Tam McManus

McManus scored his first competitive goal for Derry City on 16 July 2009, in their Europa League Second Qualifying Round first leg match away to Latvian side Skonto FC in a 1–1 draw.

The Troubles in Claudy

The 13 people killed there in the Troubles are equivalent to one percent of the village's 2001 population; in comparison, the death rate in Belfast was equivalent to just over half a percent of the city's 2001 population, and that in Derry a quarter of a percent.

Tiffany Derry

Derry is also working with the Dallas Independent School District to improve their school lunch program in order to provide healthier options.

Tyne Theatre Stage School

Our acting curriculum follows the syllabus of the London Academy of Music and Drama Art (LAMDA), and singing lessons are taught to Trinity Guildhall Singing standards.

Ulster Project

Currently, the project brings teens from eleven cities in Northern Ireland, including Banbridge, Belfast, Derry, Omagh, Coleraine, Strabane, Sion Mills, Limavady, Portadown, Castlederg, Enniskillen and Cookstown.

WBIN

WBIN-TV, a television station (channel 35/PSIP 50) licensed to Derry, New Hampshire, United States

William Boyd Carpenter

William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of the Rev. Henry Carpenter of Liverpool, perpetual curate of St Michael's Church, Aigburth, who married (marriage license 1837 in Derry) Hester Boyd of Derry, sister of Archibald Boyd, Dean of Exeter.


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