The Bogside Artists Newletter Affair 1.

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    The Bogside Artists Newletter Affair 1.   by The Bogside Artists

    THE BOGSIDE ARTISTS NEWSLETTER - Affair 1

     Date 26/2/03

    Published by "The Bogside Artists"

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     Hi,

    No. We are not traveling to acquaint you how to

    make a actor by agriculture bagpipes in Donegal. Nor do we

    wish to add to the deluge of exceptionable horseshit already

    in your email box. Instead, we will amuse, inform, edify

    and even adhere about after for your questions. If you got

    something that is useful, true or funny, bead us a line.

    Mailto: bogsideartists@bogsideartists.com

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    THIS Affair S CONTENTS

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    1.DERRY 2.EDITORIAL. 3.ON THE GRAPEVINE.

    4.OUR DIARY. 5.USELFUL SITES.

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     1. DERRY

    Derry or "Londonderry", to accord it its academic title,

    boasts some of the alotof admirable women to be found

    anywhere on the planet, with Belfast active a close

    second. That apparently explains why Derry men are crazier

    than alotof and Belfast men crazier than anybody. Derry

    however, has a bright story every bit as interesting

    as its aboriginal beauties. Anniversary Affair of our Newsletter

    will action a little atom or two of advice on the

    subject (history, that is) about which, abnormally since

    the access of the "troubles", abundant abstruse tomes have

    been written.

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    _ Derry gets its name from the age-old Irish chat "daire"

    meaning an oak grove. The oak timberline was admired by the

    Celts and is acceptable that Druids acclimated the bracken for their

    rituals. The "daire" was anchored on a crannog or small

    island in the river Foyle. As the amnion receded, the

    surrounding breadth angry into bogland, beginning derives the

    name Bogside. The acropolis itself already boasted a breastwork not

    unlike that overlooking Lough Swilly alleged the Grianan

    of Aileach.

    In the sixth aeon Saint Colmcille (Columba 521-597)

    established a abbey on the hill. There is no affidavit of

    this, but it is added than likely, as founding monasteries

    was what Columba admired to do best. This, of course,

    attracted humans to reside adjacent and so the settlement

    grew.

    The abbey absolutely was complete able-bodied into the 17th

    century if the colonists accustomed from Scotland and

    England. Derrys boomtime however, was in the 12th and

    13th centuries if the MacLochlainn absolutism confused in.

    They acclimated their abundance to body the adjustment up and

    when they died out, Derry fell into decline. It was not

    until the accession of the De Burgos that relative

    prosperity alternate to the growing town. The skeleton on

    Derry s covering of accoutrements derives from the De Burgos.

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     2. EDITORIAL.

    The Bogside Artists are a abstruse leash to many. Ergo,

    let me acquaint us. As this will yield up added amplitude than

    I feel advantaged to use, I ll be brief. In our NEXT

    Newsletter, you will acquisition a fuller and added comprehensive

    edition at our website. We will even accept our own photos!

    Consider this a simple introduction.

    KEVIN

    Kevin Hasson s academic apprenticeship began with The Christian

    Brothers academy in the Brandywell breadth of the city. It

    later confused to the Creggan and renamed itself St. Peters.

    That was in the aboriginal `70 s. "Art even then, was the

    thing I was alotof absorbed in", he says. "My dad was a

    very accomplished man who acclimated his abilities and acuteness to

    entertain us. Adroitness therefore, as a barrier against

    poverty, constituted the ambiance I grew up in."

    For his first anytime cruise away Kevin begin himself on a

    relief mission to the craving of Calcutta. It was an

    experience that adapted him. In Frankfurt, he met

    his American wife to be. Already married, he acclimatized down

    in America. Finally, he alternate home with his family.

    He wasn t home a fortnight if he affiliated up already added

    with Tom, whom he had first met at St. Peters. Art was

    the Affair they had alotof in common. Kevin and Tom both

    play guitar. Kevin brand old movies.

    TOM

    Apart from several abrupt stays in England, Tom Kelly has

    spent all of his activity in the Bogside, area he still

    lives. He is, in fact, baton of a baby non-

    denominational Christian abbey alleged "Wellspring" in

    the affection of The Bogside. Allotment of Babyhood s calendar is

    to analyze all aspects of Irish culture, particularly

    where it addresses the authentic Christian message. Babyhood is

    self-sufficient and uses The Bogside Artists flat for

    its meetings.

    Prior to abutting armament with his brother William, and his

    pal Kevin, Tom formed for ten years in cross-community art

    projects in the city-limits as a agency for accepting the two

    communities to accept one another. He was a pioneer

    in the field. Tom says: "Our association has done boundless

    harm to our accustomed pride and faculty of self-worth.

    Christianity addresses this." Tom has completed some murals

    in the city-limits that depicted life, as it existed a continued time ago.

    He alleged these `heritage murals . They were create for schools,

    hospitals and association centers.

    Tom is a accomplished accompanist and artist and has produced

    Wellspring s one and alone CD, a accumulation of well-known

    Irish gigs and a few aboriginal numbers from Babyhood s

    composers.

    WILLIAM

    Tom s earlier brother William Kelly aswell formed in England.

    First he went to Queens University afterwards a formal

    education at St.Columbs College. St.Columbs incidentally

    boasts no beneath than TWO Nobel Cost winners - Seamus Heaney

    and John Hume. Acclaimed author Brian Friel was aswell accomplished there.

    William absitively to leave uni and went to Carlisle,

    England, to plan as a Column Appointment adverse clerk, which

    lasted a year. His ambition was to `grow up . "Happily,

    I failed," he says.

    Teaming up with his brother Tom and Kevin to anatomy The

    Bogside Artists was a accustomed progression.

    William brand to apprehend and acrylic and has little time left

    for annihilation else. He is affiliated and spends his time

    between Australia and Ireland.

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     3. ON THE GRAPEVINE

    Sad canicule for some in Derry. The old stalwarts who were in

    regular cancellation of allotment from the Derry City-limits council

    have been axed this year. The purse strings are

    tightening. We, of course, accept never accustomed a penny

    and it seems that this time around, our "chances are very

    slim" according to one official. We are shocked, of

    course.

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     4. OUR DIARY

    Recently we accept organized our accumulation forth more

    professional curve with a administration board and

    everything. That means, if we administer for funding, we

    might conceivably be taken seriously. In the meantime, we

    concern ourselves with our next murals. The first of

    these will activate at the end of May. There will be three

    more in toto, and you can chase our advance with all

    three. You can be abiding that this area of our

    newsletter will gradually yield pre-eminence over all

    others.

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    So now you understand all about us! Our ambition is to

    complete the actual three murals for the Bogside. It

    will be an amphitheater gallery, different of its kind. Our

    Newsletters, of which this is the first, will accumulate you

    informed of our progress; and in the "Diary" section

    especially, you will apprehend about the camp and wonderful

    events that unfold, as we go about authoritative our

    murals......because what infact happens to The Bogside

    Artists, on a day to day basis, is a helluva lot funnier

    than annihilation we could create up. Also, we will be able to

    post photos taken in situ on our Newsletter so that you

    can get a absolute allusion of what it is like to plan as a

    muralist in Derry! On that able note, I bid you

    adieu and ambition you, on account of Tom, Kevin and myself, a

    very blessed day.

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     5. Advantageous WEBSITES

    derrycity.gov.uk, Spartan in acquaintance info.

    derrycityfc.com, Derry s soccer site, all you ever

    wanted to understand about Derry s football band but were

    afraid to ask. Up to the minute.

    geographia.com/northern-ireland/ukider00.htm, useful

    links to all things Arctic Irish.

    donegalnews.com, has that little apple life

    content. BIG things appear in Donegal, mostly to fish.

    irishroots.net/Derry.htm, for those gluttonous their

    biological origins all over Ireland. Derry s genealogy

    center is based in the Ancestry Architecture area The

    Bogside Artists accept exhibited.

    cityofderryairport.com, simple and to the point

    giving the company what he needs to understand and well

    presented with acceptable flicks. Flights to Dublin, London,

    Glasgow, Manchester, Majorca etc.

    derryvisitor.com, acceptable bung for the

    town. I should say "city"; but Derry will never be a

    "city" as such, we hope! To Derry "wans", it ll always

    be a town.

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