William Kelly

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The work of The Bogside Artists

When Sir Henry Docwra took over the settlement of Derry in 1600 he began a series of plantations in Ulster that effectively ended the autonomy of the Irish Celts. Henceforth, Ireland would be divided, not only geographically with settlers concentrated mainly in the North, but religiously between Protestants and Catholics. nThe struggle for Irish independence would continue from that date forth, from one skirmish to the next, from one rebellion to the next, the protagonists ev

March 5, 2003