14 May 1600: Henry Docwra lands unopposed at Culmore & occupies the fort there #otd On 22 May he headed to #Derry where he built a garrison on the site of the ruined monastery
27 Apr 1404: d. John Colton at Drogheda #otd, very shortly after he had resigned as Archbishop of #Armagh. He had been consecrated for that diocese in St. Paul's #London on 8 Mar 1383 (BM) His 1397 account of his ten-day visitation of #Derry diocese has survived.
23 Apr 1627: Preaching before Deputy Falkland at Christ Church #Dublin#otd George Downame of #Derry makes public opposition of #Irish bishops to limited toleration of Catholicism. Everyone there was aware of the recent conversion of Elizabeth Falkland #writer to Rome (NT/NLI)
18 Apr 1631: d. Sir Henry Docwra, 1st baron of Culmore, one-time governor of #Derry in #Dublin#otd - he was buried in Christ Church (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society)
18 Apr 1608: the fort at Culmore is tricked into opening gates #otd - and the forces of Cahir O’Doherty overcome the garrison. The next day they attacked & burnt #Derry. (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society)
17 Apr 1634: d. George Downame [Downham] Bishop of #Derry. His death paved the way for John Bramhall, close associate of the new Lord Deputy Thomas Wentworth to become bishop & a lead in Church of #Ireland affairs (eebo)
6 Apr 1604: Francis Walsingham presents his misgivings about the CofE to James VI & I #otd . James referred him to Bishop Bancroft who passed him on to George Downham future bishop of #Derry (eebo) Became a #Jesuit in 1609. Distant cousin of his namesake who died #otd in 1590
26 Mar 1666: Robert Mossom receives his patent to be Bishop of #Derry#otd During the 1650s he had used the banned Common Prayer Book for services in #London at St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf. (NLI/eebo)
"Hands Across the Divide" is a sculpture in Derry, Northern Ireland. The statue was created by Maurice Hatton, and erected in 1992. It symbolizes reconciliation between both sides of the political divide during the so called "Troubles" in NI.
(I already posted this photo here about a year ago).
9 Mar 1650: John Bramhall Bishop of #Derry appointed prize commissioner & procurator general by Charles II #otd (SSC) - this gave him a badly needed income to keep him going in exile
"An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet. Some 160,000 were detained in internment camps where torture was routine.
"One of Britain’s victims was US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who was arrested in 1949, and tortured by having pins inserted under his fingernails."
Kitson brought to Belfast his experiences in Kenya, fighting the Kikuyu Land and Freedom Army (exotically dubbed the “Mau Mau” by the British) in the early 1950s where he honed a practice of using “turned” or “converted” rebels into “counter-gangs”.
"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."
1974 People’s Democracy poster commemorating #BloodySunday on 30th January 1972
The thirteen skulls represent those #murdered by the #British Parachute Regiment: Jackie Duddy, Patrick Doherty, Bernard McGuigan, Hugh Gilmour, Kevin McElhinney, Michael Kelly, John Young, William Nash, Michael McDaid, James Wray, Gerald Donaghey, Gerald McKinney and WIlliam McKinney. John Johnston died four and a half months later from injuries he received from gunshot in #Derry on 30th January 1972.
Today in Labor History January 30, 1972: Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland occurred when British soldiers gunned down 14 Roman Catholic civil-rights marchers in Derry. The victims were all unarmed and running away from the soldiers when they were shot. Many more were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets or batons. The soldiers who killed them were members of the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment, which had committed the Ballymurphy Massacre several months prior. Two days after Bloody Sunday, Paul McCartney recorded, “Give Ireland Back to the Irish.” It was one of the only songs banned by the BBC. John Lennon later recorded “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” In 1973, Black Sabbath recorded a song about the incident, “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.” And, of course, there is the 1983 U2 song, “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izN111lXUg
12 Jan 1617: Robert Mossom, future Church of #Ireland bishop of #Derry baptised #otd at St Michael on the Mount, #Lincoln He died there on 21 Dec 1679. During the 1650s he used the banned Common Prayer Book for services in #London where he also kept a school.
16 Oct 1616: George Downame is consecrated Bishop of #Derry#otd as a reward by James VI & I for his role as a preacher & apologist for episcopacy to the #Scots kirk (eebo)
On this day in 1838, Charles John Merry of New York died aged 32. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Derry Cathedral in the Journals: https://bit.ly/merry1838