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  • Written at the time of the Good Friday agreement, and especially poignant now, in the wake of the conclusion of the Bloody Sunday inquiry, "Sunrise" chews over the disputed names of the towns of Hannon's birth and youth, (London) derry and Enniskillen (aka Inis Ceathlain), before mounting to a moving crescendo: "Who cares where national borders lie?" he croons.

    An Evening of Political Song; The Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve 2010

  • Ai gruu up wib mlik deliberd bai a hawrs nd derry cart; teh hawrs knu wair tu go nd wuz left awn himz own tu go daon teh streat wile teh “driber” ran to nd fro, swopping emptees fur full wunz, hows tu hows !

    2 kapchur da cheezburger - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • [I can't get a direct link to work, but you can find it easily by Googling "new york times" and "derry moore."] © 2007 Janice Harayda.

    2007 June 25 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • [I can't get a direct link to work, but you can find it easily by Googling "new york times" and "derry moore."] © 2007 Janice Harayda.

    2007 June « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • Reply it seems a very long time until the next county is added, its been two and half months sine dublin went live, if they are to finish in 2009 then they would need to get a move on and have at least two counties per month to have it completed by 2009, i aam waiting for derry but it looks like its going to be a very long wait

    Dublin 1911 Census Goes live! « Cork Genealogist 2007

  • Tomorrow one of the Clintons will find a way to martyr themselves with victimization and sad tales of derry-do gone awry.

    Obama: Bigger than Bill Clinton, Bigger than MLK, Jr. 2008

  • The 'Hi-Ho, the derry-o' is variously replaced with 'Ee-i, tiddly-i' in London, 'Ee-i, andio' (for instance in Northern England), and 'Ee-i, ee-i' (for instance in the West Country).

    Dell at Michelangelo's. Ann Althouse 2008

  • December 30, 2007 at 4:46 am luks lyk kitteh has poyzun in teh derry err, too

    dear sir, i regret to inform you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Looking perhaps even more pewtyflushed in her cherry - derry padouasoys, girdle and braces by the halfmoon and Seven

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • And so saying, he reached the harp, and entertained his guest with the following characteristic song, to a sort of derry-down chorus, appropriate to an old English ditty. 23

    Ivanhoe 2004

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