0:00:02 > 0:00:07This is Derry-Londonderry, the town someone loved so well.
0:00:07 > 0:00:09# Keep following...
0:00:09 > 0:00:14A city of different cultures, and in 2013, THE City of Culture no less.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18# Follow, follow, follow...
0:00:19 > 0:00:22It should be the party of the century, but is everyone invited?
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Can City of Culture really transform Derry for the future?
0:00:27 > 0:00:30For a while, the world is looking at us instead of us looking out at the world.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34It's a great opportunity to just showcase what we're made of.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38The question is, can we take that confidence, and can we build on it,
0:00:38 > 0:00:42and fulfil that dream that there is for this city, and this year?
0:00:42 > 0:00:46But behind the City of Culture banners, Derry is still a city
0:00:46 > 0:00:48that struggles to stay on its feet in some places.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50# Times are changing...
0:00:50 > 0:00:53So join me for a tour of Stroke City.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57I'll be meeting some regular people whose voices might not otherwise get heard this year,
0:00:57 > 0:01:01and hopefully get to hear a few home truths about the difference
0:01:01 > 0:01:05between being City of Culture, and the culture of their city.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07# And we'll find it
0:01:07 > 0:01:09# Follow #
0:01:14 > 0:01:20When I think of Derry, I think of John Hume, Bloody Sunday, and The Undertones.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22It's been a while, you can tell, so I'm keen to see
0:01:22 > 0:01:26what the old place looks and feels like in the 21st Century.
0:01:30 > 0:01:35# I was born in Londonderry
0:01:35 > 0:01:43# I was born in Derry City too, oh Lord... #
0:01:43 > 0:01:49Back in the day, Derry was also a place of big housing estates,
0:01:49 > 0:01:55a nervous city centre, and the place where the people tried to make the best of a bad job...if they had one.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Most ancient cities are never backwards at coming forwards in singing their own praises.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05This place was once called Ulster's San Francisco
0:02:05 > 0:02:07by Derry's very own Eamonn McCann
0:02:07 > 0:02:09with a definite twinkle in his eye.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13It was once the city that never sleeps for all the wrong reasons,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16but most Derry people I know retain a fierce pride
0:02:16 > 0:02:18in the place they call home.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21It seems like a very young, vibrant city.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25And there's lots of stuff going on always, and the people are
0:02:25 > 0:02:27some of the best people I've ever met anywhere.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29It's just a friendly city, a good city.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31It's got a good vibrancy about it.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35I think we've probably had our fair share of knocks over the years,
0:02:35 > 0:02:40but Derry for me is a truly wonderful place.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44We Derry people say there are two types of people in the world -
0:02:44 > 0:02:47people who are from here, and people who wish they were from here.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52I've always admired the people of Derry's pride and belief in their home city,
0:02:52 > 0:02:57compared to the opinion of the place held by self-regarding begrudgers of Belfast.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01It's had its fair share of kickings over the years.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Maybe that's the survival secret -
0:03:04 > 0:03:07keeping a passion for your city that you can share in good times,
0:03:07 > 0:03:10or when your back's against those famous walls.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18"The unemployment in our bones, erupting on our hands,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21in stones.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26The thought of violence a relief, the act of violence a grief.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Our bitterness and love, hand in glove."
0:03:29 > 0:03:31SIRENS
0:03:31 > 0:03:37Seamus Deane's poetic lament Derry really captures the life-and-death world of the 1970s.
0:03:37 > 0:03:42It runs alongside the stark images of a very unhappy society.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45In many ways, Derry has come a long way since then.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50The Peace Bridge is perhaps the most important, and - dare I say it -
0:03:50 > 0:03:54iconic symbol of the change wrought in Derry-Londonderry
0:03:54 > 0:03:56since those desperate days.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Not everyone roared with approval when the new bridge was proposed.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05Some felt it would be a monument to wastefulness, with its ?14 million price tag.
0:04:05 > 0:04:10Others thought that it was a defiant, futuristic shout for a progressive city.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16In Derry's history, walls, murals and rivers have divided,
0:04:16 > 0:04:18but bridges connect.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21When we went to the opening of the Peace Bridge it was just a really fantastic day.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25There was thousands of people waiting for this bridge that we've talked about for so many years,
0:04:25 > 0:04:27and finally it was open.
0:04:27 > 0:04:32It was a real sense of community, and there was people lining the Waterside,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35people lining the city side, and then coming together in the middle.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37It was fantastic.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42The survey we've done... We've a counter actually on the bridge
0:04:42 > 0:04:47that shows there's been one and a half million people movements across the bridge both ways.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50That's far in excess in which anyone would have predicted prior to the bridge opening.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Visually now, every reference to the city you can see
0:04:54 > 0:04:56includes the Peace Bridge.
0:04:56 > 0:05:01As I say, it's the over-used term of iconic, but it has become that
0:05:01 > 0:05:04very, very quickly, much more quickly than I think anyone suspected.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06SONG: "Doire" by Sean Doherty
0:05:06 > 0:05:11To mark the City of Culture, a brand-new composition has been commissioned to celebrate the city,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and to capture something of its essence.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Simply named Doire, the original Irish name for the city,
0:05:18 > 0:05:25and inspired by its patron Saint Columba, its seductive lilt is both modern and ancient,
0:05:25 > 0:05:26a new anthem for the 21st Century.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32# ..ar a reide
0:05:33 > 0:05:39# Is aire charaim Doire
0:05:40 > 0:05:46# Ar a reide, ar a gloine
0:05:47 > 0:05:50# Ar a reide
0:05:51 > 0:05:56# Ar a gloine
0:05:57 > 0:06:08# Is aire charaim Doire #
0:06:11 > 0:06:15Well, they built it, but will the tourists come in their droves,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18and what will be the legacy of City of Culture,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20many people in Derry will be wondering?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Well, no doubt some of the reviews will be mixed,
0:06:23 > 0:06:28but it may mark a much deeper change to the social contours of the city.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Behind the hype surrounding some big City of Culture events,
0:06:39 > 0:06:43problems that this year's party alone cannot solve.
0:06:43 > 0:06:49Recent statistics show two out of three children live below the poverty line
0:06:49 > 0:06:51in the city's most deprived areas.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54# These burning ships
0:06:54 > 0:06:56# These filled-up skips... #
0:06:56 > 0:07:02In some parts of town, the shutters are down, and the doctor's surgeries are full.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07# Been walking streets
0:07:07 > 0:07:14# Been filling sheets in fantasies
0:07:15 > 0:07:17# Oh, oh
0:07:18 > 0:07:20# I let you in... #
0:07:20 > 0:07:2590 per cent of my work is at least related to socio-economic things,
0:07:25 > 0:07:29to poverty, to people feeling disenfranchised,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32people feeling they've no place in society.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35People who literally can't put food in their mouths.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38They have to choose between eating, and turning on the central heating.
0:07:38 > 0:07:44I mean, Derry has... In these islands, if you look at per electoral area,
0:07:44 > 0:07:48and by almost any of the indices which are commonly used to measure socio-economic deprivation,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50in Derry these are higher.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54We have the highest rates of child poverty, we have the highest rates of personal debt,
0:07:54 > 0:07:56the highest rates of house repossession,
0:07:56 > 0:07:58and I mean, that...
0:07:58 > 0:08:02I don't want to be too raining on people's parade,
0:08:02 > 0:08:07but these are real, these have a real impact on people's health and their wellbeing.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11And what would you say to those politicians who would say,
0:08:11 > 0:08:14well, that's a kind of culture of neediness
0:08:14 > 0:08:17that has developed, and they need to pull their socks up,
0:08:17 > 0:08:19and get out there, because there are those people.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22What I would say to those politicians is come and sit in this chair.
0:08:22 > 0:08:27Come and sit, and listen. It is real, this isn't a sort of a benefits industry.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29It absolutely isn't.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43There's an old saying that if you want to understand somebody's life,
0:08:43 > 0:08:44you should walk a mile in their shoes.
0:08:44 > 0:08:49That way, if you don't like it, you'll be a mile away, AND you'll have their shoes.
0:08:49 > 0:08:55Maybe that's what the planners intended when they designed this part of Shantallow in the 1970s.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59In a way, it mirrors the walled city it overlooks,
0:08:59 > 0:09:03except with its own invisible walls of economic and cultural separation.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10People are suffering and worrying about, how am I going to pay my mortgage?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12How am I going to get food on the table for my wains,
0:09:12 > 0:09:15how am I going to get the roof over my head,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18how am I going to have a decent life for me, my children, my husband, for us to stay together
0:09:18 > 0:09:22without any income, or money, or a decent standard of living?
0:09:22 > 0:09:24It's tough.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29So the last thing on their mind, really, is the City of Culture.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35What Derry needs is not a Turner Prize -
0:09:35 > 0:09:38you know, half-eaten apples and unmade beds as art.
0:09:38 > 0:09:43They don't really need the Ulster Orchestra because they can't afford the thirty quid for the tickets.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47What these people need is a Derry which is factories.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51I'd love to see it, instead of a City of Culture being a city of heavy industry, and smoke stacks.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53It'd be great.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Turning raw materials into stuff - Derry needs that.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02The biggest challenge facing the city at the moment is skills,
0:10:02 > 0:10:06so in the next ten years it's estimated that 60 per cent of all new jobs
0:10:06 > 0:10:09will need Level 4 or higher qualifications,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11so that's graduate or above.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14We are not producing sufficient numbers of people within the city
0:10:14 > 0:10:16with those high-level skills at the minute.
0:10:16 > 0:10:23And we're left with a legacy issue where an awful lot of the population from ages of around 35 to 55
0:10:23 > 0:10:29entered low-skilled occupations such as shirt-making or basic assembly-type operations
0:10:29 > 0:10:31where there wasn't a high level of skills.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34The skills that they have are not transferrable in this new age,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36this new digital age, if you want to call it that.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Derry needs to find long-term solutions to these deep-seated economic problems
0:10:42 > 0:10:45if it's to enjoy a prosperous future.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50If the future's to be so bright, you've got to wear shades...
0:10:50 > 0:10:52of orange and green.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54As for entering this year's culture party,
0:10:54 > 0:10:59well, there's still arguments at the door from some people who nevertheless love their city.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09They really don't understand.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14Derry deserves to have its cultural heritage recognised as a right.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17This is the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19It's second-largest city in the northern state.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22We deserve concerts, we deserve theatre,
0:11:22 > 0:11:24we deserve proper venues.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27You know, we don't need these things to be gifted to us,
0:11:27 > 0:11:31and also we don't need them to come with a poison chalice,
0:11:31 > 0:11:36with an attachment which says that in a way you must negate your cultural identity,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38and your history.
0:11:38 > 0:11:43I think it was Martin McGuinness who says, "Oh, United Kingdom. Sure it's only two little letters."
0:11:43 > 0:11:48But they're two little letters which encapsulate a whole political ideology
0:11:48 > 0:11:52which is diametrically opposed to the one for which this city,
0:11:52 > 0:11:56I suppose, has been recognised for throughout the ages.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07You have to be able to walk the talk of unity
0:12:07 > 0:12:09in this historically divided city.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12For some, those divisions have defined their lives.
0:12:15 > 0:12:22These stones were laid to protect Londonderry's Protestant population, Presbyterians and Anglicans alike,
0:12:22 > 0:12:24and to shut out resistance.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28They were a definitive statement of religious, political,
0:12:28 > 0:12:30and architectural power,
0:12:30 > 0:12:35but they look out over a city heavy with contemporary history -
0:12:35 > 0:12:42the Bogside, the Creggan, home to aspirations far removed from the architects of these city walls.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45The walls speak of a city born in conflict,
0:12:45 > 0:12:50yet today their presence continues to carry people around and through that history.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57That history resonates today in places like the Fountain,
0:12:57 > 0:13:01the Protestant enclave on the predominantly Catholic west bank of the Foyle.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07It's a tight-knit community which nestles in the shadow of the great walls.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12How would you characterise the Fountain, then?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Give us a little snapshot of it.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18It's a great place to live. It's so close to town.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Like, in terms of location, I don't understand
0:13:20 > 0:13:22why more people aren't diving back to it, you know.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24And it's a fairly resilient wee community, you know.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28It's determined that it's going to stay here, and it's going to continue to prosper,
0:13:28 > 0:13:30and get on with things, so...
0:13:30 > 0:13:33There's a whole variety of people who live in the Fountain, you know,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36in terms of age, but they all, I think, have one thing in common -
0:13:36 > 0:13:40they're all fairly resilient, you know, and they have stayed in the Fountain
0:13:40 > 0:13:43despite sort of some of the stuff that has gone on,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45and they're determined to stay in the Fountain.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48I think they're determined now as well that
0:13:48 > 0:13:52the Fountain's going to continue to remain a community on the west bank.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55They'd love to see people coming back to live in it again.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57They've love to see improved services in it,
0:13:57 > 0:14:02and they'd love to feel safer, I think, where they live, more accepted by the rest of the city.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04What about the City of Culture, Catherine?
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Does that mean anything for the people of the Fountain?
0:14:08 > 0:14:10I know there's some great events going on.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14The youth club have a big programme of events, including an outdoor music concert,
0:14:14 > 0:14:16and the William King Band, the flute band,
0:14:16 > 0:14:21have an outdoor concert as well, kind of a band competition coming up in June.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25I think the City of Culture showed up a lot of divisions,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28and you just had to look at the number of locals they put out,
0:14:28 > 0:14:31so you had the UK version, the version without the UK,
0:14:31 > 0:14:37the Londonderry version, the Derry version,
0:14:37 > 0:14:41You know, I'm not... That sort of shows how many divisions there are within this city.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Something like the City of Culture maybe will plant a wee seed in people's heads
0:14:45 > 0:14:49that it's OK to have major events where everybody's invited, you know,
0:14:49 > 0:14:52or might create opportunities for people to engage in something
0:14:52 > 0:14:54that they wouldn't have otherwise got to see...
0:14:54 > 0:14:58In terms of the City of Culture, some of the public realm stuff that's happened has been amazing.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02The city's starting to look like a proper cultural city.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05I love the Peace Bridge, I love what they did with Ebrington.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08The whole way along that walkway on the city side even has been great.
0:15:08 > 0:15:15Ultimately, the most important culture is the culture that happens in spite of the City of Culture,
0:15:15 > 0:15:17or in spite of big events -
0:15:17 > 0:15:19the culture that happens all the time, and that's the sports clubs,
0:15:19 > 0:15:23the mums and dads that are ferrying kids to music lessons,
0:15:23 > 0:15:31and to Scouts and Cubs and whatever else,
0:15:38 > 0:15:43Despite its beauty, the River Foyle has always been the city's other great divider,
0:15:43 > 0:15:48with the Waterside home to the majority of the city's Protestant community.
0:15:48 > 0:15:53That population has dwindled significantly in the years defined by the Troubles,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56and few have crossed the river to find a home.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Yet turning the former Army barracks at Ebrington Square
0:16:00 > 0:16:03into the focal point of City of Culture celebrations
0:16:03 > 0:16:09was a calculated move to weave the Waterside more deeply into the fabric of the city,
0:16:10 > 0:16:16and mark 2013 as a great opportunity for Derry's Protestant community to join the party.
0:16:16 > 0:16:23# ..was black, her dress hung like a... #
0:16:23 > 0:16:27I think the Protestant community in the city is rediscovering itself at the moment.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Over the years there's been a tendency to keep the head down,
0:16:29 > 0:16:32and say nothing, and walk on,
0:16:32 > 0:16:34and there is still an element of that, but I do think
0:16:34 > 0:16:36that people are looking to vocalise their stories,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38and find their place in this city.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43You now have Ebrington Square, you now have a space which is opened up
0:16:43 > 0:16:47which is right in the heart of the Waterside's traditional Loyalist working class areas,
0:16:47 > 0:16:48and there's access to it.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51There's more access to the city now.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56You know, for people from those areas to go to the city it was a bus ride or a taxi fare.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Now it's a walk down over the Peace Bridge, and you're in the city centre.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03There's plenty of stuff out there.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07The Walled City Tattoo which is obviously coming from the Ulster Scots culture...
0:17:07 > 0:17:09which would appeal to the Protestant.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12The bands are involved. I'm working with two bands on separate projects,
0:17:12 > 0:17:17which are two plays, but I've got training and education outreach programmes attached to them.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19So I think the opportunities are there.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22We have got a year to kind of put ourselves in the shop window,
0:17:22 > 0:17:26both in terms of the kind of the profession and the industry,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29but also in terms of encouraging people out,
0:17:29 > 0:17:31giving them big events, and saying,
0:17:31 > 0:17:35"Look, if you come out to these, if you enjoy these, hi, there's more to come. We can deliver more here."
0:17:39 > 0:17:42It could yet be an important legacy of 2013
0:17:42 > 0:17:44that the Foyle as a symbol of division
0:17:44 > 0:17:47is beginning to lose its significance.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53There is definitely a new dynamism around town,
0:17:53 > 0:17:57with more events and gigs than you could possibly queue in the rain for.
0:17:58 > 0:18:03Everyone recognises that this year is a big opportunity for Derry to reshape the present,
0:18:03 > 0:18:07and the future, so that's been the focus for some of the city,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10but there are older cultural traditions -
0:18:10 > 0:18:14the brave chanters - who are still doing their thing with gusto.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19# The high walls of Derry
0:18:19 > 0:18:22# Look ancient and grey
0:18:22 > 0:18:29# And so does lovely Johnny now that he's going away
0:18:29 > 0:18:32# He is going to bonny Scotland
0:18:32 > 0:18:35# New sweethearts to see
0:18:35 > 0:18:40# May the Lord protect my Johnny until he...
0:18:40 > 0:18:46You can't help but feel the timeless essence of the city at a moment like this
0:18:46 > 0:18:50with that voice, and a room with a generation of people who are Derry to the core.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55This is the culture of the city behind the City of Culture.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58They've been doing it here for years, and will continue to for many years to come.
0:18:58 > 0:19:03# Until he comes home to me #
0:19:03 > 0:19:05APPLAUSE
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Thankfully, Derry also hold on to some important remnants
0:19:21 > 0:19:24of its industrial and manufacturing heritage,
0:19:24 > 0:19:28and it's great to know that even today there's a living, breathing connection
0:19:28 > 0:19:31to the city's legendary shirt industry.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42When the linen industry declined in the 19th Century
0:19:42 > 0:19:47Derry found itself a city full of women who were skilled at working with cloth.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Along came shirt-making, and that made Derry famous around the world.
0:19:51 > 0:19:57Indeed, by the 1920s, there were 44 shirt-making factories in Derry employing 18,000 people.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Sadly, those heady days are long-gone,
0:20:00 > 0:20:03but glory be, there's one still working.
0:20:06 > 0:20:12There's an element of craft going on here that is a million miles away from a mass-production factory.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Yes, this is not mass production.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17We do produce about 1,000 shirts a week
0:20:17 > 0:20:20which might be perceived as mass production, but this town has a history
0:20:20 > 0:20:23of factories that could produce, I don't know,
0:20:23 > 0:20:251,000 shirts an hour, you know,
0:20:25 > 0:20:27thousands and thousands of shirts in a very different way.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31This is a very, very skilled, highly crafted product.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33It's a very different quality of garment
0:20:33 > 0:20:37to a garment that's made in a huge off-shore production facility.
0:20:37 > 0:20:45Does the name Derry-Londonderry still have a cachet in terms of a place where shirts are made,
0:20:45 > 0:20:50Oh, absolutely. You know, walking through to the door to see a buyer in Bloomingdale's in New York,
0:20:50 > 0:20:57they have an understanding that Derry has a reputation for this type of manufacturing.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01So it's an immediate help. You know, Rolexes are made in Switzerland,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04so if I have a new watch to sell that's made in Switzerland, it's half the battle.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06What about individuals, then?
0:21:06 > 0:21:11Would you make for people who enjoy have the cash to enjoy the quality in vast numbers?
0:21:11 > 0:21:14We get our fair share of interesting people.
0:21:14 > 0:21:20Notably for us, really, I suppose, Gary Barlow wore our shirts every single X Factor night.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24At the moment we're making shirts for Ant and Dec for Saturday Night Takeaway.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28You know, it's a really nice thing to do, to make a bespoke shirt for someone,
0:21:28 > 0:21:30and there's a strong market for it.
0:21:30 > 0:21:36Bespoke shirting, it's a real, important aspect of our business.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38What Richard and his wife have done with their business
0:21:38 > 0:21:42maybe provides an important model for Derry's future.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46They've taken something that the city was once great at,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49turned it on its head, and re-imagined it for the modern age.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55They embody the art of the possible,
0:21:55 > 0:21:59and wouldn't it be great, instead of waiting for the big boys and their tax breaks,
0:21:59 > 0:22:03if the city followed their small-is-beautiful lead?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Because it's innovation that counts,
0:22:07 > 0:22:12especially in a city which still has a strikingly high rate of male unemployment.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Derry has a way to go shake off its men-on-the-dole image of yesteryear.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26And what about Derry's up-and-coming generation?
0:22:27 > 0:22:32Foyle College, once an exclusively Protestant grammar school situated on the city side of the river,
0:22:32 > 0:22:36now has a quarter of its pupils from Catholic families.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Do they carry the past like a yoke,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42or is it worn lightly as they plan their future?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48How has Derry changed from when you started going to school,
0:22:48 > 0:22:51compared to now when you're about to leave school?
0:22:51 > 0:22:56Well, starting school, I think, I myself,
0:22:56 > 0:22:58and quite a few other people were a lot more naive to the...
0:22:58 > 0:23:02to Derry and all its aspects,
0:23:02 > 0:23:07but now that we're grown up and mature, we're more aware of everything that's going on.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11We weren't really aware of the sectarianism in Derry.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13It wasn't really affecting us.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16We actually went to the same primary school,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18and it just felt then, when we came to Foyle,
0:23:18 > 0:23:22we were mixing with a different religion, but it doesn't bother us.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25We see past it. Everyone's a person.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30Everyone's a human being. It doesn't matter about religion.
0:23:30 > 0:23:35There's a minority that still cling to the past of what happened,
0:23:35 > 0:23:39but I think the majority of the people living in the town on both sides
0:23:39 > 0:23:43are thinking of the future, thinking what we can do with the city
0:23:43 > 0:23:45if we just put the past behind us.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Do you see yourself coming back to Derry,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51or starting a working life somewhere else?
0:23:51 > 0:23:54If the work starts to pick up here again, I would come back.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58It's just that, from what I'm hearing, I'll not get a job in teaching here,
0:23:58 > 0:24:01so most of the jobs are filled.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03It's mostly to do with economic reasons,
0:24:03 > 0:24:06so if there was places going back here, and it picked up, I would certainly come back.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11I'm thinking of going to the Tech to do a HND course
0:24:11 > 0:24:16in electrical engineering, because I don't think it's time for me to leave the city just yet.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20And if I do do electrical engineering at some point,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23I'd like to come back, and work here.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26What are the things about Derry that are keeping you here, then?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Well, it's home.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30It's a place I'm familiar with.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34You can walk around the street, and if you smile at someone
0:24:34 > 0:24:36you know they'll smile back at you.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39There's a lot good festivals, music and events going on here,
0:24:39 > 0:24:42as the City of Culture showed, and if that picks up after that,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45and keeps going, then I'm sure there'll be plenty of reasons to come back here.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49I think we should really take the reins on City of Culture,
0:24:49 > 0:24:53and just, regardless of religion,
0:24:53 > 0:24:58regardless of race, just include everyone,
0:24:58 > 0:25:04and use their talents to create something...wonderful,
0:25:04 > 0:25:06and something that we can show the rest of the world.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11It's refreshing to know that this new generation
0:25:11 > 0:25:15have a spring in their step, despite their city's spiky history.
0:25:15 > 0:25:21Now it's a place they believe can remain home, if they can find the jobs to keep them there.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25And compared to the past, that's a great aspiration.
0:25:25 > 0:25:31But for many less fortunate teenagers from Shantallow, and the back streets of Ebrington,
0:25:31 > 0:25:37the future may not be so bright, because there's always two sides of the story,
0:25:37 > 0:25:39like there are two sides of Derry.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42# Oh, Danny boy
0:25:45 > 0:25:49# The pipes, the pipes
0:25:49 > 0:25:51# Are calling...
0:25:54 > 0:26:01Remembering vital parts of our past is important, as these evocative murals in the Bogside help us to.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06# ..the mountainside...
0:26:09 > 0:26:14But I hope the future of this city will run freely like the Foyle
0:26:14 > 0:26:16under the symbolic new bridge.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20# ..falling...
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Derry's always been political, it's always been cultural,
0:26:24 > 0:26:26and I think it'll remain that, you know.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29You're always going to have new musicians, new artists, new writers, new poets.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33No matter what the subject, or what the art,
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Derry has somebody who's brilliant at it.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39# But come ye back
0:26:39 > 0:26:48# When summer's in the meadow
0:26:49 > 0:26:55# Or when the valley's hushed
0:26:56 > 0:27:02# And white with snow...
0:27:05 > 0:27:07There is a new generation in town, you know,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10and we're just forward-thinking, we're not dwelling on the past.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14The past's important, and we should mark it and celebrate it,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17commiserate it, but we have to think positively,
0:27:17 > 0:27:19and look towards the future, you know.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24# ..in shadow
0:27:27 > 0:27:30# Oh, Danny boy, oh, Danny boy
0:27:30 > 0:27:35# I love you so
0:27:35 > 0:27:40I reckon 2013, City of Culture, will go down as a really important moment
0:27:40 > 0:27:43in this city's 21st Century history.
0:27:43 > 0:27:50Not particularly for the events. More for the space that it's created in the imagination of the people.
0:27:50 > 0:27:55City of Culture 2013, and its more lasting monuments like this amazing bridge,
0:27:55 > 0:28:00have boldly declared Derry as a place to be reckoned with on a much bigger stage,
0:28:00 > 0:28:04and it's going to be impossible to put that genie back into a provincial bottle.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10So let's hear it for the people who have written Derry's name large in the sky,
0:28:10 > 0:28:14for those already making the culture of the city vibrant,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17and those who simply want to love their town so well.
0:28:19 > 0:28:26# ..and all my grave will warm and sweeter be
0:28:28 > 0:28:41# For you will bend and tell me that you love me
0:28:43 > 0:28:53# And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me #
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