Effect Of Regional And National Influences On Characteristics: Londonderry

Question 1

What award was given to Derry in 2013?

Answer 1

Derry was the inaugural UK City of Culture

Question 2

What cities other than Derry were crucial locations for American shipping convoys?

Answer 2

Derry, Glasgow and Liverpool

Question 3

What has the Good Friday agreement introduced?

Answer 3

The Good Friday (Belfast) agreement introduced Power Sharing Executive, decommissioning of the IRA, reform of the police, withdrawal of the army and redevelopment funding from the EU

Question 4

What are the locations of loyalists and nationalists within Derry?

Answer 4

• Waterside for Loyalists

- Bogside for the Nationalists

Question 5

What occurred in the early 20th century in Derry?

Answer 5

• severe sectarian rioting

- 1921 partition, border city separated from the rest of Country Donegal

Question 6

What is the current population of Derry?

Answer 6

90,000 in Derry urban area

Question 7

What occurred during the Sectarian “Troubles”?

Answer 7

Sectarian ‘Troubles’
• Sectarian tension continued into the 1960s/70s/80s/90s
• British Armed forces intervened to protect (Protestant) Loyalists, by ‘containing’ (Catholic) Irish Nationalists into ‘Free Derry’ in the Bogside
• Rule of law (Bloody Sunday) vs. Rule of fear (Walkers Column)

Question 8

Where Loyalists Catholic or Protestant?

Answer 8

Protestant

Question 9

What is sectarian violence?

Answer 9

It is a form of communal violence which is between different sects of one particular mode of an ideology or religion within a nation/community. E.g. Catholic vs Protestant or Shia vs Sunni