Quiz: Test your knowledge of the city in the Big Derry Quiz

WRITERS AND ARTISTS

1. Name the Irish novelist who was the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union organiser in Derry in 1918.

2. Which former Derry factory is mentioned in volume one of ‘Das Kapital’, by Karl Marx, as an example of large-scale production?

3. Which book by Leon Uris was set in Derry and Donegal?

4. She was born in Derry on March 28, 1944, and worked as a journalist for The Irish Times from 1970, who is she?

5. Which Derryman was nominated for the 1987 Turner Prize for excellence in the field of artistic endeavour?

6. Name two literary works by former Derry Mayor, Doctor Raymond McClean.

7. Who was known as the ‘Jail Journalist’ and where was he born?

8. (a) Name three children’s hymns written by Fanny Humphreys from Strabane. (b) What honour was bestowed on her husband, William Alexander?

9. Name the Saint who wrote Colmcille’s biography.

10. a) Which male poet, associated with Derry, used the name ‘Incertus’ when writing in Q and Gorgon magazines while studying at Queen’s University? (b) Where and when was he born? (c) What age was he when his first major book was published?

ANSWERS . . . WRITERS AND ARTISTS

1. Paedar O’Donnell.

2. Tillie and Henderson’s at the bottom of Abercron Road.

3. Trinity.

4. Nell McCafferty.

5. Declan McGonagle for work in the Orchard Gallery.

6. The Road to Bloody Sunday and A Cross Shared.

7. John Mitchel – born in 1815 at Camnish, near Dungiven.

8. (a) ‘Once in Royal David’s City’, ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ and ‘The Golden Gates Are Lifted Up’. (b) He became Bishop of Derry in 1896.

9. St Adamnan whose name is given to one of the concealed wells in St Columb’s Wells.

10. (a) Seamus Heaney. (b) Mossbawn, Tamniarn, Co Derry, in 1939. (c) The Death Of A Naturalist was published in 1966 when he was 27.