Colm Cille, the founding father of Derry, is attributed in a poem as describing the city as follows: “The reason I love Derry /Is its quietness, its purity/ For full of angels white it is/ From one end to the other”. We arrive in the city for our concluding event, ‘The Fold’, at a time…
At the steps of the Royal Irish Academy founded in 1785 ‘to promote the study of science, polite literature and antiquities’, the start of our walking tour for Colm Cille – The Object. Enter a hushed library with dark wood book casements and galleries above, green lamps hanging low over tables above the heads of…