There are many places you can visit that you just know you
are going to love, but there are very few that can genuinely surprise you. Derry is a surprise. In fact, Northern Ireland’s second city is an
unexpected delight.
The biggest of several so-called “holy islands” on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Devenish Island is home to one of the finest monastic sites in Northern Ireland.
Construction of the Roman Catholic St. Eugene’s Cathedral in Londonderry began in 1851 as a response to the end of the potato famine, which claimed around a million Irish lives in the 1840s.
There are many places you can visit that you just know you
are going to love, but there are very few that can genuinely surprise you. Derry is a surprise. In fact, Northern Ireland’s second city is an
unexpected delight.