Bernadette Walsh keeps us up to date with developments at Derry Guildhall: The Guildhall exhibition – Plantation: Process, people, perspectives – opens to the public on Monday 10 June at 10am.  It’s a very exciting time for all the staff involved in researching, developing and installing the exhibition.  We have a range of archives and objects installed, from original maps to Sir Cahir O’Doherty swords, and the star of the show – a page of the Great Parchment Book. We have monitored the environment, checked the audio-visuals and hung the dressing up clothes and we are ready for the visitors… we hope!
 
Coincidentally, we have a visit by the Irish Society to the Guildhall on Monday, so current members will be one of the first to see the archives on display on loan from London Metropolitan Archives.
 
It’s been a long road: I believe we began talking about an exhibition in 2007, as we were commemorating the Flight of the Earls. Good luck to everyone!