Annual Derry Walls Walking Tour returns

The Friends of The Derry Walls have announced that their first event in the Winter program is a Walk & Talk by Dr Liam Campbell titled “The Walls in their watery landscape”.

After Liam’s successful Walk and Talk on our famous historic Derry Walls last year, this time Liam will look at the Walls and their relationships with both the Foyle and Swilly catchments and how this is constantly changing by both human and other factors. What we see now is not as it has always been and will not be in the future especially when we explore the nature of islands.

Liam Campbell is Director of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies based at the Ulster American Folk Park. He has published and lectured widely on heritage and environmental issues.

Prior to that he worked as a television producer for some 20 years before returning to academia. He is a visiting lecturer at East Tennessee State University where he spent a year as Basler Chair for Integration of the Arts and Sciences in 2018. With undergraduate degrees from NUI Maynooth and masters degrees from both Queen’s University Belfast, and Ulster University, he completed his PhD at Ulster University.

His recent book Room for the River – The Foyle Catchment Landscape : Connecting People, Place and Nature has just been reprinted in paperback. He has just co-edited an Atlas of Lough Neagh’s built, natural and cultural heritage.

The Walking Tour will leave the Verbal Arts Centre sharp at 10:30am on Saturday, November 29.

Tickets are available through Eventbrite at https://thederrywalls.com/events/ or on the morning of the event. Please wear appropriate clothes as the Derry weather is unpredictable!