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Extract from the Derry city Travel Guides:
DERRY
lies at the foot of Lough Foyle, immediately before the border with the Republic. It's a crossroads city in more ways than one; roads from all cardinal points arrive here, but it was also a major point of emigration from the eighteenth century onwards, an exodus which reached tumultuous proportions during the Great Famine. Derry is the fourth-largest town in Ireland and the second-biggest in the North, but it has a markedly different atmosphere from Belfast, being two-thirds
Catholic
. While entrances to the city are now marked by signs in Irish welcoming visitors to Derry, the city still appears as "
Lon...
read the whole Derry city Travel Guides...
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