Report

CCRU home background on CCRU community relations equality and equity research

a public hearing
minority experiences
in Derry Londonderry


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Templegrove Action
Research Limited

First published 1996
by Templegrove Action Research Limited
13 Pump Street, Derry Londonderry, BT48 6JG

© Templegrove Action Research Limited
Written by Dave Duggan

Typeset by Pauline Collins, Ruth Moore and Marie Smyth
Photographs by Allen Kennedy
Drawing and final editing by Marie Smyth

Printed by RCD Print Limited, Racecourse Road, Derry Londonderry
All Rights Reserved
ISBN 1 900071 00 3


A REPORT OF A PUBLIC HEARING

on

THE EXPERIENCES OF MINORITIES
IN DERRY LONDONDERRY

in

The Minor Hall, The Guildhall

February 21, 1996



Facilitator and Organiser
DAVE DUGGAN

In collaboration with
RUTH MOORE and PAULINE COLLINS

Project Director
and final editor
MARIE SMYTH


TEMPLEGROVE ACTION RESEARCH LIMITED
Derry Londonderry



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Congratulations and thanks are due to the people who put the submissions together and who presented them. Our thanks are due to the members of the panel who gave their time their experience and their attentive listening to the day. Thanks also to Lorcan McLaughlin who ran the public address system, Ken Rooney of the Fountain Partnership, to the Advisory Group, particularly Barney Devine, Denis McCoy, Brendan Murtagh and Donnie Sweeney. William Temple of the Board of Directors gives constant advice and feedback. Allen Kennedy provided a photographic record of the day in his usual unobtrusive and professional manner. Gloria McGinley, who did the ISL interpreting and Chuck Mikity were both crucial to the success of the day. Tim O'Connor of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, Dublin Castle, provided advice and relevant documents. The Minority Rights Group International provided documents and information on minorities for dissemination on the hearing day. We thank them all.

We are grateful to Liam Milligan and his colleagues at the Sensory Support Service who provided crucial advice and practical help. Our thanks to BBC Radio Foyle, Highland Radio, The Belfast Telegraph, The Londonderry Sentinel and the Derry Journal for covering the event. We would also like to thank the staff of the Guildhall, for their assistance at the hearing. Finally, thanks are due to our funders, Derry City Council, The Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust, The Inter Church Emergency Fund for Ireland, and The Community Relations Council, without whose financial assistance none of this would have been possible.


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