Derry: City of Two Traditions
Colum, Padraic
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By PADRAIC COLUM
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in a principal place in Derry. The main...
...I was in Doire-Colmcille...
...Rubicund...
...They built the walls...
...Londonderry instead of Doire-Colmcille...
...Protestants in the north of Ireland have been feeling...
...My...
...They are...
...taken part in the defense of Derry...
...now, thou, man as thou art, and possessing a rational...
...And here, it seems to me, more than in any...
...joyous defiance of the besieging guns...
...Here, queen of Erin's daughters, fair Derry, fixed her...
...They look as if they belonged to an archaic...
...back...
...Of things old her faith alone...
...We are carrying too much lead in our...
...a friend of mine, a Derry man, I stop to read a...
...Guild Hall...
...We walk along the Foyle toward its mouth...
...ledgers, and who had been worsted in the continual...
...and recall the same from superstition, rebellion, calamity...
...place where afterward a cross, fixed in a mill-stone and...
...raine, the fisheries of the Bann and Foyle, the woods...
...made by the townsmen against the enemies of the...
...The business that Derry...
...morrow, Mr...
...speaking about the business done by the town...
...by-streets and farmers' cottages...
...And if you asked...
...parture hence save what I myself have just now told thee...
...Then came...
...turn salesman...
...recall that General Wayne—"Mad Anthony Wayne...
...That man had one of the best businesses in...
...pioneer type that was to give such account of itself in...
...No fear...
...they might have approached the little cell that Columba...
...a stable...
...bring over to us the feeling of the springtime of...
...And so the London companies took over the whole...
...who were to become the original Derry Prentice Boys...
...Colmcille...
...away in crates: like every other town in Ireland that...
...monastic buildings that were there in Columba's...
...been the right policy, but it could never have been...
...name—the epoch of transferred and synthetic place...
...the relations between the dominant Irish state and...
...the anniversary of the Shutting of the Gates...
...On...
...And as the two old women nodded over their rosaries...
...by grim-looking merchants...
...It is all better expressed," I say, "in a song that...
...of the steeds that wept over Achilles and Cuchullain...
...MacConnell...
...The Ulster poet whom I had visited had said to...
...Himself has clearly in some way revealed that his master...
...the graves that are around the cathedral I come upon...
...temporarizers.' We don't write that on our placards...
...ticular hall is a moving-picture featuring a starry-eyed...
...Business is...
...he is carrying is of samples of tea...
...And then we are on the walls thirty feet high that...
...honorable to both communities...
...gates, weapons, proclamations, news letters of the...
...and remote island of lona a sacred place, and made...
...ary cuts Derry off from its hinterland, the County...
...it keeps the memory of an ancient round tower that...
...torians used to be so enthusiastic about, and which north...
...episode could be told of...
...comes over from the epic tradition, they know that...
...He...
...Time can wear the very stone...
...The main figure...
...ployed in this most prosperous branch of Ulster's linen...
...saying the two old women walking by the monument...
...The biographer of...
...their heads, and they have stunted figures and worn...
...Then without saying another word about the song...
...friend...
...that the political interest of the townspeople seem to...
...May our City never want Walkers...
...ashamed nor afraid to lead off on a placard like this...
...Out of Derry...
...I imagine...
...the cultivated fields of Derry County...
...showing itself most promisingly in the Ireland of that...
...always on the edge of an attack...
...Columba ordained a king...
...cially when his hand is raised, like one who might direct...
...In this cathedral are relics of the siege that brought...
...as King James's army advanced up north...
...If stones could speke then London's prayse should sounde...
...arbiters of the affairs of the Picts, Gaels, Saxons and...
...and plucked it down and shipped the notable...
...America must have received a great influx from this...
...A rampart wail was 'round her, the river at her feet...
...the feeling that we belong to a garrison...
...Did you...
...Says Holinshed...
...These merchants had a king declare that he...
...Ireland at the time was influencing the history of the...
...A holy temple crowned her, and commerce graced her...
...answer...
...which his Majesty conceived could not be effected, but...
...we hear the bellowing of cattle as they are be...
...Ulster constabulary, a revolver dangling from his...
...Let him pour...
...Whose dispensation every animal has sense to perceive...
...a place "the Oak-Grove of Calvach," or "the Meadow...
...And the attendant seeing this, began to drive away the...
...Rome itself, which is the head of all cities...
...In the vestibule of Saint ColumbkiU's Cathedral I...
...which undulates so triumphantly over Columbkill's...
...These green slopes with...
...beginning civilization...
...anything for the development of other Ulster towns...
...companies—Fishmongers', Skinners', Grocers', and the...
...street...
...At last a ship broke the bar and brought relief to...
...Celtic saints bring over this feeling in a fuller measure...
...rampart-breaking artillery came into use...
...later season brought disaster indeed...
...pastoral enough to recall the old Doire, the old oak...
...soil...
...figures depicted on the glass—schoolboys in their long...
...at the windows, new, too, which depict in stained glass...
...out of the Free State and to have Derry left with the...
...is being celebrated...
...Looking from the walls I see the road which I...
...state that you Papishes controlled...
...They...
...sation abounds in military metaphors...
...and the poems attributed to him, bring over this...
...And then he points out a man who is coming...
...Great and Good King William, who saved us from...
...Belfast administration say...
...and maybe I'll have to agree with you, but that's the...
...now divides the six northern counties from the rest of...
...He has no office...
...him alone, let him alone, for he loves me...
...Where Foyle his swelling waters rolls northward to the...
...surrender of the town was flung among the garrison...
...that kind of feeling...
...In the congregation I see the two...
...The sight of the pair made me hope that I might come...
...the neighboring counties would leave him without any...
...You see," says my friend, "that we...
...been the latest built city walls in Europe...
...knowing that his master was soon about to leave him and...
...of Patrick, Brigide and Colme, who are said to have...
...fancy dressed up in a modern uniform: he is striving...
...panions sailed when he went to open his mission to the...
...I offer the suggestion that Derry should have gone...
...And after this the saint goes out of the granary, and...
...He, coming up to the saint, wonderful to tell, lays his...
...lies, and the king got out of it only a head rent...
...trees are along the Foyle...
...shed copious tears into the lap of the saint as though he...
...of the defenders...
...He rode to the north, and in his journey he razed Saint...
...and half from Saint Columba whose name is in the...
...while the saint, weary with age as I have said, rested there...
...The boys were orphans...
...out any warrant from the king or council he profaned...
...then there was the beleaguerment from April to...
...for which Mass was said, Columba, as deacon, assist...
...even as far as triangular Spain, and the Gauls, and Italy...
...Londonderry became a place...
...These Londonders, men and boys, built a good town...
...sent them to England...
...Vowed the maiden on her throne, boys, would be a...
...Ireland and secure for themselves lands forfeited from...
...blessed his servant the horse as it sadly turned to go away...
...horses as they turn down a street, looking as if they...
...victories, its tablets commemorating notable families...
...association with the Derry of history, Saint Columb...
...and wooden shoes...
...of them...
...the Sacrificial Mystery, by some chance, was not...
...storied than a Catholic one, which, in general, is newer...
...provement in our business will not bring us into the...
...must be one of the most beautiful passages in the litera...
...famous shirts and collars are being made...
...and here is a nationalist club...
...I stand with...
...and that the other people in the street were there to...
...event that took place in the Three Kingdoms in making...
...There is the episode of Columba bidding good-bye to...
...Belfast that wants all the prosperity of the industrial...
...not only through the whole of our Ireland and Britain...
...the Free State, you'd get a short answer, I tell you...
...Saint Columba gives...
...She meant that half of the tradition of...
...patrons and protectors of civilization in the British...
...culture and humane ideas...
...servant, runs up to him, the one that used to carry the...
...ing from this piece of ready-made ferocity I see two...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 21
