This series of five panels is outside the Cathedral Youth Club in The Fountain, Londonderry. In order, they show: a cry of “No Surrender” by the Apprentice Boys, Breaking The Boom, Walker’s Monument (to George Walker, governor during the siege and killed at the Boyne; the statue was blown up on 19730, Roaring Meg (the 1642 cannon), and the Cathedral (St Columb’s).
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After three and a half months, from April 18th to July 30th, 1689, the Siege of Derry ended when two ships, the Mountjoy (shown here) and the Phoenix, broke through a timber boom that had been placed across the Foyle. Approximately half of the population of the city had died. Roulston Avenue, Londonderry.
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The siege of Derry began on December 7th, 1688 when thirteen apprentice boys – without official instruction – shut the gates of the city against the approaching Jacobite army of redshanks.
Emerson Street, Londonderry.
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Each year the residents of the upper Fountain put the names of the 13 apprentice boys (and images related to the siege of Derry) on the backs and the garden fences of their homes.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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The siege of Derry lasted from December 1688 until July 1689, the “relief of Derry” coming with the “breaking of the boom” across the river Foyle by the ship Mountjoy. Wapping Lane, Derry.
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The Siege and Relief of Derry are portrayed in two panels painted by J[?] Thompson, and the names of the thirteen Apprentice boys who closed the gates to the city are given in the middle: Campsie, Crookshanks, Morison, Steward, Irwin, Sherrard, Harvy, Cairns, Sherrard, Cunningham, Conninghman, Hunt, Spike. To the left and right are shields of brethren around the world: England, America, Australia, Quebec, and Éire. Sandy Row, Belfast
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
Another celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Battle Of The Boyne in 1690 – shown on the left by King William III on his steed — preceded in 1688 by the relief of the “Londonderry under siege” – shown here by the coat of arms of the city and the slogan “No surrender”.
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A detail from the UDA/UDF ‘Shutting the gates of Derry’ mural in Canmore Street that we first saw last year.
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The Siege of Derry as seen from the point of view of the besiegers – the (French) army of James II. Kennedy Place, London-/Derry
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