A new book featuring more than 1,000 images of Derry’s memorable 2013 celebrations is to be launched in the city tomorrow.
“2013: A LegenDerry Year” is described as the “definitive record” of the City of Culture celebrations, which encompassed 500-plus events across the North West.
Images for the book – covering January to December 2013, and the 2010-to-2012 run-in – were contributed by the city’s own camera men and women.
So if you were at any of the major events there is a good chance you will be in the book!
Edited by Garbhan Downey and produced by Guildhall Press, support for the publication was received from the Arts Council NI and Culture Company.
The launch is open to the public and will take place at the Ráth Mór Centre in Creggan at 1.30pm.
Bronagh Gallagher.
Speakers will include actress/singer Bronagh Gallagher, Diane Greer and Culture Company chief programmer Martin Melarkey.
There will be music showcases and photographic exhibitions running at the Centre throughout the day.
The publication provides the perfect visual archive to a year, which saw visits from the likes of: Danny Boyle, Sam Shepard, Carol Ann Duffy, Lee Child, Robbie Williams, Paul Greengrass, the Radio One Big Weekend, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, the Turner Prize, Lumiere, Other Voices, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chic and many more.
There is extensive coverage of the city’s very own cultural community, amateur and professional, who participated in the non-stop cavalcade of festivals and fun. Pictured playing their part are: the late, great Seamus Heaney, Field Day, Brian Friel, Snow Patrol, Dana, The Undertones, Bronagh Gallagher, Neil Hannon, Willie Doherty and Soak, to name but a select few.
And there is also, of course, a full pictorial review of the year’s most spectacular “in-house” festival, the Return of Colmcille Pageant, which featured thousands of performers and tens of thousands of spectators.
TV producer Phil Redmond – who is chair of the City of Culture judging panel – provided the introduction to “2013: A LegenDerry Year.”
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