31st May 1999

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A group of historians from throughout Ireland are among the contributors to a new book which has just been published on Derry City and County Londonderry.

Entitled 'Derry and Londonderry: History and Society', the book has been edited by Magee College Historian Gerard O'Brien:

"The attention paid by a variety of writers from different disciplines to the city and county has been considerable, but somewhat haphazard," he said.

In the publication Dr O'Brien brings together a series of authors who look at traditional historical issues such as archaeology, the siege and emigration.

But the book also includes more modern aspects from history such as housing segregation up until 1991, social change and collective action in the 'Sixties and the controversy over the siting of a 'second university' in the city.

It also contains upwards of one hundred varied illustrations and photographs and includes: scenes of potato-digging at Templemoyle, West Bank housing before the redevelopment and even an aerial photograph of the Bellaghy district.

Among the book's contributors are Nobel poet Seamus Heaney, Sam Burnside from the Verbal Arts Centre, Henry Jefferies from Thornhill College and Brian Mitchell from the Genealogy Centre in Bishop Street.

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