An absolute must see. A real highlight of my visit.
St. Augustine’s, known as the “Wee Church on the Walls” is built on the site of St Columba’s first monastery in Ireland which was founded in 546AD on “God’s Little Acre”, this site on the oak clad Hill of Derry given to him by his cousin, Aed, King of Cenel Conaill. Continue reading “St Augustine’s – A Church of Many Names”
Cecil Frances Alexander (nee Humphreys) was born in Dublin in 1818 and moved to the Derry/Strabane area in 1836. It was here that she began writing both poetry and hymns in the very simplistic style for which she became world famous. Continue reading “There is a Green Hill (far away) in the Creggan”
Something to contemplate while you visit St Columb’s Cathedral.
There are few, if any, better know hymns (and yes, it started out as, and still is, a hymn) in the world then Amazing Grace. Continue reading “Amazing Grace – Newton and the Derry Link”
This is an easy one to miss and I must admit I just happened on it by chance, or was it the Sherlock Holmes in me! Continue reading “Sally Forth from the Sally Port”
The Rambling Wombat 