News from County Derry
Robert Boyd, a local hero and Freedom Fighter in Málaga, Spain
When: Wednesday, 20 March, 2024Nestled in a quiet corner, up against her 17th-century walls, and less than 400 meters from the busting Foyleside and Richmond shopping centers in the heart of Derry city, can be found St. Augustine's Church (pictured below).
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From Edenbane, Ireland to Edenbann, Australia
When: Wednesday, 10 January, 2024The following family story which I first researched in 1988 and then told in the introduction to my Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy (first published 1991, Clearfield Company, Baltimore, Maryland) “sums up for me what makes genealogy and the study of one’s family tree such an absorbing and fascina
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New York and the Green Yacht from Derry
When: Tuesday, 5 September, 2023Over one hundred million Americans can trace an ancestor who arrived, from 1892, in the United States at Ellis Island.
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From Ireland to Sydney in 100 Days - Letters from Passengers
When: Wednesday, 20 September, 2023By 1830 Ulster was in crisis. In the preceding 50 years she had experienced an unparalleled period of population growth which was reflected in chronic under-employment in agriculture, which was by far her largest employer.
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Irish Migration from Derry to Canada
When: Monday, 6 December, 2021From the late 1600s, in the age of the sailing ships, to the onset of the Second World War in 1939, when the last transatlantic steamer sailed from the port, Derry was one of the principal emigration ports in Irel
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County in Focus - Derry
When: Wednesday, 30 November, 2022County Derry, also known as Londonderry or Doire in Irish and is one of the six counties in Northern Ireland. Derry is famous for its old intact city walls which surround the city and for the pretty Sperrin Mountains and Lough Neagh.
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John Steinbeck: I Go Back To Ireland
When: Tuesday, 11 July, 2023John Steinbeck, Nobel prize-winning author visited County Derry, Northern Ireland, in August 1952, in search of his roots. He wrote from Derry city, on 17 August 1952, to his friend and editor Pat Covici:
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The Story of the Ship Faithful Steward
When:The emigration trade established Londonderry as one of the chief Irish ports for transatlantic trade in the 18th century. Links between the cities of Londonderry and Philadelphia were established through trade.
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Philadelphia: The Irish Gateway to America
When: Tuesday, 21 March, 2023Between 1717 and the beginning of the War of American Independence in 1776, 250,000 Scots-Irish, often
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