Crossword clues for derry
derry
- Northern Ireland port
- Northern Ireland county
- Fictional town in Stephen King works
- Town near Bangor, in many King works
- Town in New Hampshire
- Port of Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland's second-largest city, after Belfast
- Meaningless musical refrain
- Folk song refrain
- Fictional Maine town in many Stephen King tales
- Fictional Maine town in many Stephen King stories
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 8942
Land area (2000): 15.423046 sq. miles (39.945504 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.251435 sq. miles (0.651214 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.674481 sq. miles (40.596718 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17860
Located within: New Hampshire (NH), FIPS 33
Location: 42.883929 N, 71.308537 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 03038
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Derry
Housing Units (2000): 1317
Land area (2000): 0.809140 sq. miles (2.095664 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.019214 sq. miles (0.049763 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.828354 sq. miles (2.145427 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18960
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.333037 N, 79.301011 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15627
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Derry
Wikipedia
Derry , officially Londonderry , is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Irish name Daire or Doire meaning "oak grove". In 1613, the city was granted a Royal Charter by King James I and gained the "London" prefix to reflect the funding of its construction by the London guilds. While the city is more usually known colloquially as Derry, Londonderry is also commonly used and remains the legal name.
The old walled city lies on the west bank of the River Foyle, which is spanned by two road bridges and one footbridge. The city now covers both banks (Cityside on the west and Waterside on the east). The population of the city was 83,652 at the 2001 Census, while the Derry Urban Area had a population of 90,736. The district administered by Derry City and Strabane District Council contains both Londonderry Port and City of Derry Airport.
Derry is close to the border with County Donegal, with which it has had a close link for many centuries. The person traditionally seen as the founder of the original Derry is Saint Colmcille, a holy man from Tír Chonaill, the old name for almost all of modern County Donegal, of which the west bank of the Foyle was a part before 1610.
In 2013, Derry was the inaugural UK City of Culture, having been awarded the title in 2010.
Derry is a city in Northern Ireland.
Derry may also refer to:
Derry is a fictional town and a part of Stephen King's fictional Maine topography. Derry has served as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. Derry first appeared in King's 1981 short story The Bird and the Album, and has reappeared as late as his 2011 novel 11/22/63 (see list below). Derry is said to be near Bangor, but King has acknowledged that Derry is actually his portrayal of Bangor. A map on King's official website, though, places Derry in the vicinity of the town of Etna.
King, a native of Portland, created a trinity of fictional Maine towns – Derry, Castle Rock and Jerusalem's Lot – as central settings in more than one work. King has stated that writer H. P. Lovecraft was responsible for King's own fascination with horror and the macabre, and was the single largest figure to influence his writing.
Derry is a male given name, often an abbreviation of Diarmuid or its anglicisiation Dermot. Among those with the name are:
- Derry Beckett (born 1918), Gaelic footballer and hurler from Cork, Ireland
- Derry Clarke, Irish celebrity chef
- Derry Grehan (born 1937), Canadian guitarist with Honeymoon Suite
- Derry Hayes (c.1928–2005), hurler from Cork, Ireland
- Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg (born 1940), British lawyer, judge, and political figure
- Derry Mathews (born 1983), English lightweight boxer
- Derry Millar, Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada 2008–10.
- Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (born 1957), photographer
- Derry O'Sullivan, Irish poet
- Derry Power (born 1935), Irish actor in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
- Derry Wilkie (1941–2001), British singer with Derry and the Seniors
Derry is a surname. Among those with the name are:
- Duncan R. Derry (1906–87) Canadian economic geologist.
- John Derry (1921–52) British test pilot
- Reigan Derry (born 1988) Australian singer and songwriter
- Russ Derry (1916 – 2004) American baseball player
- Shaun Derry (born 1977) English footballer
- Tiffany Derry (born 1982) American chef
Usage examples of "derry".
I think there must have been something in the genetic memory of the Bodark settlers that made them seek out a countryside that looked exactly like your County Derry.
There was no way on earth that the Bodarks could be found to resemble Svanetia, but they probably did look much like County Derry.
Derry Welfram died I drove homewards to London wondering yet again, as so many people had wondered so often, just what leverage Filmer had used on Gideon.
Pressing one finger down from Derry to the CanadaVermont border in a westernreaching straightedge, he located their approximate position.
Eno and I were sent to the same Det, which was working around Derry city and surrounding county.
Barnard, Dean of Derry, now Bishop of Killaloe, drew up an address to Dr. Johnson on the occasion, replete with wit and humour, but which it was feared the Doctor might think treated the subject with too much levity.
One evening he watched civil rights marchers being beaten up near Derry.
The old guard of the IRA, well clear of Belfast and Newry and Derry, lauded their northern heroes.
After his death Lady Beresford continued to reside with her young family at his place in the county of Derry, and seldom went from home.
Years later he would build the hotly debated BBC communications center in London, and the arguments might rage for a thousand years and still no one would know (except for Ben himself) that the communications center was nothing but the glass corridor of the Derry Public Library stood on end.
I had been hotly debated, both in the council's public meetings and in the letters-to-the-editor columns of the Derry News.
Kids have been ignoring this sign for years, and it's been years since the Derry, Bangor, and Aroostook actually ran freights along the spur through The Barrens, anyway.
He went several steps further - scratch a hacker, find an overachiever - by adding another dozen small cities to what he called 'the stat-pool' and presenting me with a computer-generated bar graph where Derry slicks out like a sore thumb.
His mother was a devout Catholic who would die of breast cancer in 1962, four years after Patrick was consumed by the dark entity which existed in and below Derry.
The retards get out at the same time as the kids at Derry junior High, but most of them go home with their mothers on the special retard bus, which is blue instead of yellow and is reputed to have a bumper sticker on it that says SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH OR I'LL KILL YOU.