Portrush
Portrush old town, including the iconic Train Station as well as most hotels, restaurants and bars, is built on a mile–long peninsula. Portrush is a popular seaside town that grew from a small fishing village into a very popular holidays destination for locals and foreign tourists. Portrush has beautiful white sand beaches.
Portrush Memorial Church
World War I Memorial with unknown Statue
Food Trucks on the way to the Beach Area.
Ballywillan Parish Church (Holy Trinity, Church of Ireland) built on Main Street, Portrush in 1841
Portrush Main Street
Methodist Church Portrush...
Leaving for Londonderry
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Londonderry
City Derry is...... the tourist site for Londonderry. Derry, like Belfast suffered greatly since Ireland was divided into Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland ...religious and nationalistic strife went on for nearly a hundred years. The street murals testify to these inter communal wars and riots, the killings, the separations and the hates...are all to see in the Murals....painted by both sides...Pray that Peace and Love will prevail.....
Diamond WW1 War Memorial
Londonderry Wall City
Derry's City Walls built in 1619 are the only City Walls to be almost intact in Ireland. The four original gates Shipquay, Ferryquay, Bishop's and Butcher's Gates were rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries,with three new gates named New, Magazine and Castle Gates were later added.
St, Columb Cathedral, Londonderry
St Columb's Cathedral A magnificent landmark, this neo-Gothic Anglican Church Cathedral,was built in the early 1630s. Also called St. Columb's Cathedral is the oldest and most historic building within the walled City of Londonderry.
One of four original Gates - The Bishop's Gate
Walking along the walls of the 17th Century Wall City
Old Cannons in the City Walls
Peace Bridge a foot bridge in the centre of the city called Peace Bridge.
Shipquay Gate
The Derry Guildhall
Our Sorento and the Shipquay Gate in the background
The New Gate
Hunger Strike Memorial
Glenfada Bogside Mural....in memory of those who died on Bloody Sunday
Peace Dove Mural
A Loyalist neighbourhood in Derry...the sign makes one to feel tense...
Free Derry was a Nationalist self-declared Bogside area of Derry, during the height of violence from 1969 and 1972. It turned the area into a protected zone, a barricaded area.
Is It human inferiority complex ...or fear and distrust..?..or discrimination?
The Obelisk or Bloody Sunday Memorial, is located close to the spot where the thirteen unarmed people were killed by the British Army on 30 January 1972.
The Obelisk Garden in the Bogside, Derry
St Eugene's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic Cathedral
Near Craigavon Bridge, is the Hands Across the Divide Monument. . this Monument was built in 1992, twenty years after Bloody Sunday, this captivating bronze sculpture of two men reaching out to each other symbolises the spirit of reconciliation and hope for the future of the people of Northern Irealand
Scenic view on the A2 to Strabane
Driving out towards Armagh
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