{"id":237,"date":"2018-02-12T16:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=237"},"modified":"2024-05-13T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:10:48","slug":"my-derry-the-willie-curran-collection","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/product\/my-derry-the-willie-curran-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"My Derry \u2013 The Willie Curran Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Willie Curran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Willie Curran bought his first box camera in a Derry chemist\u2019s more than 60 years ago \u2013 and has been looking through a viewfinder ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Protests and parties, weddings and riots, concerts and cart races, Willie has never missed a beat. In his time, he\u2019s done it all \u2013 from developing his own black-and-white slides to filming with a drone.<\/p>\n<p>This new collection is just a snapshot of his hugely interesting life \u2013 and provides us with a warm, nostalgic and moving portrait of Willie\u2019s friends, family and an ever-changing city. With hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, <em>My Derry: The Willie Curran Collection<\/em> is a fascinating community perspective of the city and an important addition to its cultural archive.<\/p>\n<p>A compassionate portrayal of a city community. The images date largely from the 1960s to the present day and offer a massive insight into Derry society, and its changes, over the past half-century.<em> Garbhan Downey, author<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Willie Curran, a working-class hero in my judgement, has made a contribution which will outlast many others. His prescience in recording the \u2018growing up\u2019 of his family, community and city provides us all with a priceless and irreplaceable insight of the life and times of Derry, the town that he loves so well. <em>Mitchel McLaughlin, Speaker of the Stormont Assembly (2013\u201315)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Curran Willie Curran bought his first box camera in a Derry chemist\u2019s more than 60 years ago \u2013 and has been looking through a viewfinder ever since. Protests and parties, weddings and riots, concerts and cart races, Willie has never missed a beat. In his time, he\u2019s done it all \u2013 from developing his<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/product\/my-derry-the-willie-curran-collection\/\" class=\"link-btn\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span> <i class=\"icofont-thin-double-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":677,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16,83],"product_tag":[146,249,261,265,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-237","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-photo-collections","7":"product_cat-local-interest","8":"product_tag-derry","9":"product_tag-historical","10":"product_tag-imagery","11":"product_tag-politics","12":"product_tag-street-scapes","13":"product_shipping_class-large-books","15":"first","16":"instock","17":"featured","18":"shipping-taxable","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}