Don’t believe the stereotype – Derry Girls blackboard now part of Ulster Museum exhibition about identity and culture

Do you keep your toaster in the cupboard? Hate ABBA? Holiday in Bundoran? These are important questions that Derry Girls raised during in a memorable episode that dived headlong into the stereotypes that persist in Northern Ireland society. The ‘Differences’ blackboard from the show is currently on display in the Ulster Museum’s new CultureLab exhibition along with memorabilia from many other ways we express and define our local identity, not just the Orange and Green.

The Nuclear Option

  No sooner had the debate begun about how ‘Derry Girls’ really measures up as a sitcom, than BBC Northern Ireland decided last week to air the first of three new episodes of ‘Give My Head Peace’. Thanks BBC because you just reminded everyone what a massive leap forward Lisa McGee’s not quite perfect Channel 4 sitcom is for Northern Irish comedy. Now entering the second half of its six episode run, the fourth episode of ‘Derry Girls’ again delivered …

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