How did one nineteenth-century memorial to a seventeenth-century figure
come to be so significant in the city of Derry that it would generate
conflict for nearly two hundred years? How has the struggle over its
symbolism been borne out over that time? Who perpetuates it, and to what
end? This book explores these questions and takes as its central focus
the history and commemoration of the Walker Testimonial as a means of
examining the social and cultural tensions of memory and identity in
Irish and Northern Irish history. [Subjects: Irish History; Local
History; Social History; Northern Ireland]