The University for Derry Committee or University for Derry Action Committee was a group campaigning for the New University of Ulster to be located in the...
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Derry City Football Club are a professional football club based in Derry, Northern Ireland. They play in the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top...
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the University for Derry Committee, to have Northern Ireland's second university located in the city, ended in failure. Derry was a focal point for the...
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leading nationalist politician. In 1965, Eddie McAteer of the University for Derry Committee expressed the hope that the rare common cause between local...
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in Coleraine rather than Derry - opposed by the broad-based University for Derry Committee which included several senior English intellectuals - but Catholics...
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groups led by the University for Derry Committee hoped that Magee University College would become the new university. Founded as a Presbyterian training...
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authorities to grant Derry the new University of Ulster, supported by a broad coalition led by the University for Derry Committee. The university was instead granted...
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Magee College (redirect from Magee College, Derry)
Ulster University Derry~Londonderry campus, better known as Magee College, is one of the four campuses of Ulster University. It is located in Derry, Northern...
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Causeway Institute University for Derry Committee Coleraine Cluster "Ulster University Finance Statement 2014" (PDF). Ulster University. p. 28/30. Retrieved...
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Free Derry (Irish: Saor Dhoire) was a self-declared autonomous Irish nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland that existed between 1969 and 1972 during...
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Bloody Sunday (1972) (redirect from Bloody Sunday (Derry))
to it, a university was opened in the smaller (Protestant-majority) town of Coleraine rather than Derry (see University for Derry Committee) and, above...
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Free Derry Corner is a historical landmark in the Bogside neighbourhood of Derry, Northern Ireland, which lies in the intersection of the Lecky Road,...
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Michael Canavan (politician) (category Politicians from Derry (city))
salmon-processing factory and a pub in the city. He was treasurer of the University for Derry Committee in 1965, and worked with John Hume to try to attract industry...
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John Hume (category Politicians from Derry (city))
: 34 Hume first test of the possibilities for change was as chair in 1965 of the University for Derry Committee.: 22–23 Accompanied by the city's Unionist...
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54°59′38″N 7°19′34″W / 54.994°N 7.326°W / 54.994; -7.326 The siege of Derry in 1689 was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The...
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activist from Derry, Northern Ireland. He helped found the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) and the Derry Unemployment Action Committee (DUAC) which...
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Lilian Seenoi-Barr (category Members of Derry City and Strabane District Council)
Party politician who has served as Mayor of Derry City and Strabane since 2024. She is a councillor on Derry City and Strabane District Council, where she...
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Economy Committee. McLaughlin was re-elected in the 2022 Assembly election. In her role, McLaughlin focuses on jobs and the economy, particularly in Derry, as...
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Battle of the Bogside (redirect from Derry Riots)
August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Thousands of Catholic/Irish nationalist residents of the Bogside district, organised under the Derry Citizens' Defence...
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Eamonn McCann (category Councillors in Derry (city))
and journalist from Derry, Northern Ireland. McCann was a People Before Profit (PBP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Foyle from 2016 to 2017...
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works at Stranorlar The Strabane to Derry line was completely owned by the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee, although it was operated by the CDRJC...
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Donal McKeown (category Alumni of Queen's University Belfast)
Roman Catholic prelate from Northern Ireland who has served as Bishop of Derry since 2014. McKeown was born in Belfast on 12 April 1950, one of four children...
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Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, PC, KC (born 23 June 1940), known as Derry Irvine, is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor...
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shelters and treatment centres for alcohol and drug addiction in Derry. He was formerly a member of the NI Drugs Committee and the BBC Broadcasting Council...
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Derry Hill is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, in the civil parish of Derry Hill & Studley. It has an elevated position at the northern edge...
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This article documents numerous traditions of Derry City Football Club, including the culture associated with and surrounding the club, and its supporters...
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was defeated by Republican candidate Eddie Andrews. Derry sat on the following standing committees: Human Resources Judiciary State Government She was...
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Northern Ireland civil rights movement (category Movements for civil rights)
lobbying, research and publicising discrimination. The campaign for Derry University was another mid-1960s campaign. The most important organisation established...
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Central every two hours. Monday to Sunday, all passengers for Castlerock, Bellarena and Derry~Londonderry railway station must change at Coleraine. Ulsterbus...
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Colum Eastwood (category Politicians from Derry (city))
Member of Parliament (MP) for Foyle since 2019, served in Northern Ireland Assembly from 2011 to 2019 and served on Derry City Council from 2005 to 2011...
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