Bogside

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The Bogside (Irish: Taobh an bhogaigh) is a neighbourhood outside the city walls of Derry, Northern Ireland. The area has been a focus point for many of the events of the Troubles, from the Battle of the Bogside and Bloody Sunday in the 1960s and 1970s. The large gable-wall murals by The Bogside Artists, Free Derry Corner and the Gasyard Feile (an annual music and arts festival held in a former gasyard) are popular tourist attractions.

The Bogside, looking down from the entrance to the city walls.	Gable wall with a mural by The Bogside Artists depicting August 1969.	Bloody Sunday Memorial	Memorial to the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
Monument to former IRA leader Sean Keenan	Plaque honouring Irish National Liberation Army members	Memorial stone to IRA members from Derry	Free Derry Mural
Wall mural in the Bogside. February 2008.	Westland Street in the Bogside, viewed from the city wall (July 31, 2007)

[edit] See also

• Bogside Artists
• History of Derry
• Free Derry
• History of Ireland

[edit] External links

• Museum of Free Derry - History of the Bogside
• Bogside Murals
• Battle of the Bogside
• Bogside & Brandywell Initiative

Coordinates: 54°59′52″N 7°19′38″W / 54.99778°N 7.32722°W / 54.99778; -7.32722 (Bogside)