The great guns like thunder: the cannon from the City of Derry

The great guns like thunder: the cannon from the City of Derry B. G. Scott, R. R. Brown, A. G. Leacock and C. J. Salter (Guildhall Hall Press, £25) ISBN […]

Consolidating conquest: Ireland 1603–1727

Consolidating conquest: Ireland 1603–1727 Pádraig Lenihan (Pearson Longman, Ä25.20) ISBN 9780582772175 In the last twenty years, a whole coterie of Irish medievalists, early modernists and modernists have sought to emulate […]

Derry City Council and the Plantation of Ulster: remembering 400 years

The HMS currently operates four museums—the Tower, Harbour, Workhouse and Foyle Valley Railway Museums. An Archive Service and a programme of learning activities allow staff to raise awareness of the […]

Museum Eye

The Tower Museum, Derry O’Doherty’s Tower, Union Hall Place www.derrycity.gov.uk/museums, +44 (0)28 71372411 October–May, Tues.–Sat. 10am–5pm   The city of Derry could be described as a monument of the Plantation […]

From the files of the DIB…Double-jobber

KNOX, Andrew (1559–1633), Scottish cleric and Irish bishop, was born in Ranfurly, Renfrewshire, second son of John Knox. He was educated at Glasgow University, gaining his MA in 1579. As […]