Words For Thought

Explore More Explore Strabane and The Sperrins are a series of 6 films produced by Mammoth Media for Strabane District Council and Northern Ireland Tourist Board. Presented by Declan Forde. Script Robert Forshaw Camera Brendan O'Donnell & Chris Orr Director/editor Katherine Kirk There are many parts of Ireland that claim to be the land of Saints & Scholars, but in Strabane we have produced some of the finest minds, the finest writers, the finest musicians that have ever come out of Ireland. Among these are Flann O' Brien - a literary genius of the early twentieth century ,celebrated hymnist Cecil Frances Alexander and in the fields of science, mathematics & education, James McCullagh (Plumbridge) & George Sigerson (Hollyhill) . And if that wasn't enough , Strabane can also lay claim to a man John Dunlap born Meetinghouse Strabane in 1746 - who printed what arguably could be considered to be one of the most important documents in existence today- the American Declaration of Independence.