Double Bastion

Double Bastion. . , The city has always expressed its soul in verse., Derry mine! My small oak grove , Little cell, my home, my love! , Attributed to St. Colmcille, The saint's story is told as St Columb in the Cathedral and as St Colmcille in Long Tower Church., The purple headed mountains, , The river running by, , The sunset and the morning , That brightens up the sky.' , Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander, The 19th century hymn writer was inspired by the view of the Creggan Hills., 'My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger, , I walked among their old haunts, the home ground where they bled; , And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter , Till its oak would sprout in Derry where the thirteen men lay dead.' , Seamus Heaney, The poet expressed his reaction to the events of Bloody Sunday, 30th January, 1972 in 'The Road to Derry'., 'But when I've returned, how my eyes have burned , To see how a town could be brought to its knees , By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars, , And the gas that hangs on to every breeze. , Now an Army's installed by that old Gas-yard wall , And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher. , With their tanks and their guns, Oh my God, what have they done. , To the Town I Loved So Well.' , Phil Coulter , The Town I Loved So Well, The singer-songwriter summed up how many people felt during the Troubles.