Bogside residents in Derry are furious at planned moves by local museum.
(1888PressRelease) July 13, 2014 - In the Bogside Derry there exists The People's Gallery which is composed of twelve large-scale murals depicting key events of the last 30+ years since the first march for justice by the predominantly Catholic communityi in October 1968. This came at the end of many years of Unionist tyranny in the city and elsewhere in the province.
The murals bring thousands of tourists to the city each year from which Sinn Fein tours profit greatly. Notwithstanding, their museum called ironically "The Civil Rights Museum" have plans to obstruct any viewing of it. In yesterdays front page of the Derry Journal (7/11/'14) the issue was understandably given centre stage.
Protesters are pictured with a letter of complaint that was apparently ignored by the Planning Commission that gave the go-ahead. Stormont government has given £2.2 million towards building an extension to the building to be undertaken by Brennan Associates.
The mural in question called "Civil Rights" stands close to the property and it is acknowledged as the key mural in all twelve. Locals who love the mural and have grown up with it are staggered at the dismissal of their rights in the matter.
The proposed extension includes a ramp right across the mural; and a totally arbitrary wall that will completely block any sighting of the mural as well as hindering the view of a second mural facing it. Residents are planning a mass protest against the incursion which is seen as yet another move by Sinn Fein to seize total control of the Bogside for their own tourism purposes.
The artists known around the world as The Bogside Artists are as astonished as anyone at the proposal. Said Tom Kelly, their spokesman.
"We have but three questions to ask of these idiots. How on earth can those who run a museum calling itself The Civil Rights Museum seek to obliterate a world famous mural ABOUT civil rights right on its own door step? How on earth can any museum that is essentially there to PROTECT culture, history and art, take upon itself the wanton destruction of all three? Whose purposes are they serving?
It is rumoured that the purposes being served are purely political designed to placate yet further the interests of Unionism and Westminster England as regards what people can and cannot see of Derry's turbulent past in The Bogside.
Bogside residents in Derry are furious at planned moves by local museum. 
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