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Episode 106 - Derry Rocks the Boat

We are a world record breaking City ! 

And we did it with style - courtesy of Micky Doherty, diplomacy - courtesy of the Nobel Institute and a total lack of grace - courtesy of the Talking Derry Girls.

The Mayor and her chosen charities were in attendance, bravo to Foyle Hospice and The Ryan McBride Foundation for all their important and valued work. 

The representatives of the Norwegian Nobel Institute were in town and were able to witness the Legacy of John Hume’s Peace Prize first hand…Did former SDLP leader Mark Durkan really sit them amongst a crowd of Derry Wans on Shipquay Street? What did they make of Rock the Boat and could Micky Doherty be in line for a Nobel Prize?

Pauline celebrates her big Birthday, Marie-louise introduces her eldest daughter to the perils of Rock the Boat and Jeanie discovers that she and Mark Durkan introduced same sex marriage to Derry by both marrying the same person…this is Derry …all together “…Rock the Boat, Don’t Rock the Boat…’’!!

NOTES: 

Rock the Boat (Derry world record) - 

https://www.derryjournal.com/news/people/we-did-it-derry-smashes-guinness-world-record-for-rock-the-boat-4616653

Mayor’s Charities - ROCK THE BOAT CHALLENGE - for Mayor Patrica Logue’s charities (Foyle Hospice and Ryan McBride Foundation). 

https://foylehospice.com/rock-the-boat/

Foyle Hospice - 

https://foylehospice.com/

Ryan McBride Foundation - 

https://mcbride5foundation.com/

Mayor Patricia Logue swimming challenge - 

https://www.derrystrabane.com/news/mayor-takes-the-plunge-in-aid-of-local-charities

Mark Durkan - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Durkan

Norwegian Nobel Institute 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Institute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Nj%C3%B8lstad

John Hume’s medals - 

https://www.visitderry.com/blog/read/2022/12/john-humes-peace-prizes-bequeathed-to-derry-on-public-display-in-guildhall-b327

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-63900189

Derry Girls Exhibition - 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66088882

Referendums and Good Friday Agreement - 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-61968177

TDGs Ep 42 Finale - Good Friday Agreement 

TDGs Ep 100 chat with Lisa McGee about that Finale Episode. 

WARNING DOES CONTAIN SOME MILD SPOILERS FOR EP 3 BLUE LIGHTS. 

The Derry Girls - Blue Lights connections are well and truly there if you dig deep. The TDGs are joined by Derry Girl Louise Gallagher who had the original idea for Blue Lights. She also has a feature film under her belt: 

‘A Bump along the Way’ and an award winning short film ‘Rough’. As well as having her own production company, Louise works for Hat Trick (who made Derry Girls) developing new NI drama and comedy writing talent. Without giving away any major spoilers we talk about Blue Lights, Derry Girls, kissing slurping noises in films and whether you go up, down or over the town! 

Notes: 

Louise Gallagher - 

https://www.gallagherfilms.co.uk/about

A Bump Along the Way - 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9198724/

Tess McGowan - 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10235159/

Bronagh Gallagher - 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0302345/

The Commitment in Derry Girls - 

https://www.bronaghgallagher.com/

TIFF - https://www.tiff.net/

Rough (award winning short film IFTA) - 

https://www.roughfilm.com/

KIN - 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13444408/

Derek Thompson aka Robin Graham - 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860054/

Summary of Blue Lights Ep 3 - Love Knows 

https://www.whattowatch.com/features/blue-lights-season-2-episode-3-recap-love-knows

Black Mountain - 

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/northern-ireland/divis-and-the-black-mountain

Bronagh Taggart (writer of Ep 3 Blue Lights and also in Derry Girls) - 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846499/

Jonathan Harden aka Jonty - 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325042/

Madam last discovery - 

https://www.facebook.com/p/Madams-Last-Discovery-100086459482698/?paipv=0&eav=AfZN6xJuZzpC3oeyQEQPjjUWs96uLkUYJX3zkgcegN73fCPsDWjbxfO6hlR6uX42f-4&_rdr

Dea Matrona Band (who feature in Blue Lights Ep6) https://deamatrona.co.uk/

WAVE (Trauma Counselling) - 

https://wavetraumacentre.org.uk/

Colin Davidson NI artist Silent Testimony - 

https://irishartscenter.org/event/colin-davidson-silent-testimony

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp134355/colin-davidson

Dearbháile McKinney aka Aisling and wee Aunt Sarah in Reunion Episode - 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9130037/

Hannah McClean aka Jen Robinson - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6007345/

The Land of Saints and Sinners - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15782690/

(Starring Liam Neeson and few actors from Blue Lights and Derry Girls) 

Hat Trick - https://www.hattrick.co.uk/

Roma Downey - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Downey

A Bump Along the Way - 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bump-Along-Way-Bronagh-Gallagher/dp/B083ZR497K

Rough - 

https://www.roughfilm.com/film

Jazz Festival -https://cityofderryjazzfestival.com/

ROCK THE BOAT CHALLENGE - for Mayor Patrica Logue’s charities (Foyle Hospice and Ryan McBride Foundation). 

https://foylehospice.com/rock-the-boat/

EP 3 - Jeanie’s dog Duke and the army 

EP 81 and 82 Shirt Tales part 1&2 Factory Girls mouthwashers 

Back in November ‘23 the TDGs chatted with award winning photographic artist Deirdre Brennan. (Ep.88). Deirdre was working on her latest piece “Looking for Brigid” in honour of Ireland's female patron Saint Brigid.

Deirdre set up her camera in Derry's Playhouse and welcomed Brigids, Bridies, Brids and all variations thereof to tell their stories and pose .

Did she find Brigid? Was she a Saint or a Goddess? Or maybe that ethereal celestial creature …a Derry Girl. 

The TDG’s are back and they are channelling their inner Brigid. 

NOTES: 

Deirdre Brennan - https://deirdrebrennan.ie/

https://www.instagram.com/deirdre_brennan_photographer/p/C2kHm3JMoY2/

Looking for Brigid - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-67213788

https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/St-Brigids-Day

https://www.instagram.com/deirdre_brennan_photographer/p/C2kHm3JMoY2/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/05/saint-patrick-beer-brewing-brigid-ale-ireland

Talking Derry Girls episodes:  

https://podfollow.com/1518036400

Ep56 - All about St Brigid and the campaign to have a public holiday on 1st Feb in Ireland. 

Ep88 - Deirdre Brennan tells us about her photography project to capture modern day Brigids.  

Winner of the Radio Times Award for TV Moment of the Year - the final episode of series 1 brings a fairground ride of emotions. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise examine those things that just aren't talked about and discuss the secrets that we all keep in our search for acceptance. What was it like to be gay in 90's Derry? From dirty laundry to job interview tips and workplace training the girls build up to their own very personal reactions to that final award winning scene.

Shoes of the world has actually been written in The Habit - it actually exists https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/school-derry-girls-actually-brought-habit-magazine-back-perfect-article-617924

How to sort out your weekly wash…. just ask Pauline on our Facebook page…

Gerry Anderson BBC Radio Ulster/ Radio Foyle legend - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071wzdt/episodes/downloads

Jimmy McShane https://www.derryjournal.com/news/brother-derry-pop-star-speaks-aids-stigma-and-devastation-173719

Armistad Maupin - Tales of the City https://www.armisteadmaupin.com/books-1

Derry Gay Pride https://www.facebook.com/foylepride/

Jimmy McShane https://www.derryjournal.com/news/brother-derry-pop-star-speaks-aids-stigma-and-devastation-173719

Chronicle of events in Ireland during the years of the troubles CAIN - 1998 https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch98.htm

Lost Lives book (very hard to get hold off but good to know it’s out there https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/mckittrick.htm

Children of the Troubles by Joe Duffy and Freya McClements https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/book-tracing-the-186-children-who-died-in-the-troubles-launched-1.4053136

Radio Times TV moment of the year 2018 https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-31/top-tv-moments-2018/

A tribute album by various artists released after the Omagh bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Bridge_of_Hope

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It's the 12th of July and the Derry Girls are leaving town. Pauline Jeanie and Marie Louise talk about the history of the 12th, being waved at by the big man off the telly and why a fortune teller had all the answers - maybe. They advise on taking the right purse and why packing a fruit cake in your hand luggage isn't recommended. They're having a whale of a time on the River Foyle, hitchhiking across the border and discussing the correct etiquette when invited to tea with paramilitaries. 

The Sash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sash

Battle of the Boyne 1690: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Boyne

The Orange Order: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18769781

The Apprentice Boys of Derry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_Boys_of_Derry

http://www.thesiegemuseum.org/

BBC Sounds a short history of Ireland podcast - from around omnibus 20 builds up to the history of the Orange Order; Siege of Derry and the Apprentice Boys of Derryhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mnfpl

Derry - Londonderry City of Culture 2013:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/29/derry-city-of-culture-reawakened-idealism

Drumcree standoff 1995-2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumcree_conflict

Different Drums - Roy Arbuckle: http://www.differentdrums.net/players/roy-arbuckle/

Rev Ian Paisley: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/12/the-rev-ian-paisley

Moby Dick - The Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

Dick - the whale in the Foyle! https://www.derryjournal.com/news/dopey-dick-has-retired-scotland-784232

Tommy Teirnan - Gerry Quinn: https://www.tommedian.com/

The Punt - currency in Ireland before the Euro.. 

http://www.irishcoinage.com/PICINDX4.HTM

Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11121336

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_loyalism

Club Biscuits: https://mcvities.co.uk/products/club

Bronagh Taggart - Nicola in Peggy’s diner: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846499/

Terence Keeley - the wee ‘ra man in the boot:

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Even if some of the hosts have eight bedrooms and a chocolate fountain, one wean from Chernobyl is not impressed and Granda Joe's new ‘friend’ has started a Cold War. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise talk condoms, blow-dries and the downsides to a bomb damaged bargain. Pauline discovers why it really matters whether Granda Joe bought a cream horn or a cream finger and whether the Stations of the Cross is a suitable place for a date.

The Walls of Derry: https://thederrywalls.com/

Why people starved within the walls - The Siege of Derry: https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/siege-derry

The Undertones: http://theundertones.com/_/Home.html

Snow - Informer (1992) - Great Irish name - Darrin Kenneth O’Brien. Well worth a read! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(musician)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/snow-interview-2019-informer-con-calma-837818/

Chernobyl Children in NI: https://en-gb.facebook.com/foyleandinishowencci/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36140015

Pump Street and cream horns…https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/ireland/derry-girls-guide-to-derry-murals-cream-horns-and-sr-michael-stout-1.3816482

ACTOR Diona Doherty (Katya): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5189746/

Eurovision Song Contest - Cork 1993 - Ireland kept winning the contest which meant they had to host the next one! Ireland won 1993 so we were then treated to River Dance during the interval in 1994: http://www.millstreet.ie/blog/tag/eurovision-1993-memories

Aran jumpers - they look good no matter what size you are - ignore Jeanie! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aran_jumper

East Belfast - where Wee Clive was from, a really interesting history to this place: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/we-serve-up-50-fascinating-facts-about-east-belfast-30958166.html

ACTOR: Anthony Boyle (David Donnelly): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4996269/

Only a Woman’s heart - Eleanor McEvoy and Mary Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQP9931NhU

This is such a great story from Frank Crummey and his boot filled with condoms:

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Exam time leads to some new found religious devotions. Even the statues are moved. Or is it all a tall tale? Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise examine the phenomena of the "sexy priest", crushes on the older man and why burying a dog doesn't necessarily mean it's dead. There's bingo, bellies, dogsh*t, army manoeuvres and ironing. Plus the realisation that everyone's a liar. No offence!

Ian McElhinney: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568400/

Ian's interview with The Derry Journal: https://www.derryjournal.com/whats-on/big-interview-game-thrones-and-derry-girls-actor-ian-mcelhinney-164921

Jonathan Swift: https://www.biography.com/scholar/jonathan-swift

Ballinspittle Co Cork - moving statue RTE TV report: https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21203792-moving-statue-in-ballinspittle/

John Hume: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1998/hume/biographical/

Father Ted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/

The Thorn Birds: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085101/

Fleabag: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5687612/

Derry Journal: https://www.derryjournal.com/

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On RTE (in Ireland): https://www.rte.ie/

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What’s yours? Or maybe that should be ‘Do you want chips with that?’ Everyone gets enthusiastic about a school trip to Paris - sure their newly discovered trust funds will cover the cost - won’t they? We learn how a ban from the chip shop in ‘90s Derry was a worse fate than being tied up by masked men and how either would still be preferable to an evening with boring Uncle Colm. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie-Louise talk school assemblies, the realisation that we are not all equal and how Derry men embraced being stay at home dads, long before it was fashionable. Would you like salt and vinegar with that? 

Daniel O’Donnell: http://danielodonnell.org/

Woolworths - first store in UK: http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/aboutwoolies.html

Wellworths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellworths

Derry’s shirt factories: https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/shirt-industry

Night Hawks - RTE: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1024/826451-comedian-kevin-mcaleer/

Samuel Beckett: https://www.biography.com/writer/samuel-beckett

Morecambe and Wise: http://www.morecambeandwise.com/viewpage.aspx?pageid=17

The Big Issue (North): Jamie Lee O’Donnell doesn’t talk about the corona stone in this interview but it’s still a crackin' read - https://www.bigissuenorth.com/issues/1343/

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Pauline, Jeanie and Marie-Louise go back to where it all began in Episode 1: Erin wakes to find her cousin Orla reading her diary. Clare wants to be an individual. Michelle has made the connection between Derry and Pulp Fiction, Slainte Mofos. The wee English Fella is learning some harsh realities. We meet the the players from our ensemble cast and learn that picking a favourite isn’t going to be easy. 

Our girls talk teenage diaries, how bombs play havoc with your suntan and the quickest route from Dennis’ wee shop to the school bus. 

Discover how John Travolta could have married a Derry Girl, why matchboxes are to be feared and how one Londonderry girl nearly donned a sash at a very early age. This was most definitely not a sash her father would have worn. 

Episode 1 of Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls: where it all began and new comedy gold was born. 

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On RTE (in Ireland): https://www.rte.ie/

Series 1 & 2 available on Netflix outside UK: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/derry-girls-season-2-coming-to-netflix-in-august-2019/

Bronagh Gallagher: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0302345/

That disco dancing fella that was in Look who’s Talking: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000237/

BBC Radio Foyle Breakfast Show: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wdb5r

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Meet Pauline, Marie-Louise and Jeanie! They are devoted fans of the 90s-based hit comedy, Derry Girls, set in their home city. Sharp, warm and a wee bit sweary, Derry Girls has a language and a humour that is unique…a bit like Derry itself. Each week, the three will be talking about an episode and the city they love. Whether you’re a first timer to the award winning series or a seasoned viewer, anxiously waiting for series 3 to be filmed, you are all very welcome. And remember, you don’t have to be from Derry/Londonderry or even a girl - being a Derry Girl is a state of mind! Join us next Wednesday (24 June) when we'll be chatting about Derry Girls episode 1, series 1. 

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