Legacy

Robinson setting out the parameters for his ‘pluralist’ legacy in 2021?

Mick Fealty on November 26, 2012, 9:44 am

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So one of the big set pieces of the weekend was Peter Robinson’s claim was that a majority of Catholics now (ie, right now) would prefer to stay with Britain than take their chances in what (as Ruarai points out in the comments zone) remains a hugely undefined united Ireland. On the face of it he’s pushing further than Trimble’s famously self defeating claim that 35% of NI Catholics where unionists. Self defeating because such weak attachment did not and …

Derry City Council finally pay their [ground rent] debt

Pete Baker on February 15, 2012, 7:44 pm

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As they promised at the time, the BBC report an update on Derry City Council’s attempt to frustrate the legacy of Raymond Saville Conolly de Montmorency Lecky-Browne-Lecky. After his death in 1961 the amateur actor’s dying wish was that two charities, the Actors’ Charitable Trust and the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, would benefit from revenues from his estate – including the ground rents from properties he owned in Londonderry. One of the ground rents involved was for the City Swimming Baths on William Street, run …

Derry City Council to meet charities over £10,000 ground rent debt

Pete Baker on November 22, 2011, 8:07 pm

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The latest BBC report promises to keep us up to date with any developments on the story of Raymond Saville Conolly de Montmorency Lecky-Browne-Lecky’s legacy to two charities – the Actors’ Charitable Trust and the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund. After his death in 1961 the amateur actor’s dying wish was that the charities would benefit from revenues from his estate – including the ground rents from properties he owned in Londonderry. There’s an account of his funeral here, an account of the auction …

Legacy issues?

Pete Baker on June 4, 2011, 4:49 pm

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The suspicious object which, on its discovery yesterday, caused a security alert in the Sligo Road area of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, was, apparently, a “40-year-old mortar”. Which would date it to [circa] 1971… But whose “mortar bomb” was it? And how long had it been in place? Update The “40-year-old mortar” is now being described as a “rocket propelled grenade” which “had been in the ground for 15 to 20 years” – it was disabled on Friday by British Army technical officers in a controlled …