Antiques Roadshow is to focus on Derry Girls in a forthcoming broadcast.
The show visited Derry last July, intending to broadcast one programme. However, so many different antiques and areas of historical interest were uncovered that its producers decided to feature Derry in three episodes.
In the first show, broadcast in October, the intriguing story of the 1891 Derry county hurling championship trophy was revealed. The oldest GAA trophy in Ireland, it was won by St Patrick’s who appeared to keep it. The cup disappeared until 1921 when it featured in a photograph of the St Patrick’s football team and then vanished again until the mid-1930s.
It was stored for safe-keeping at Derry’s Waterside parochial house and was eventually presented to the Derry county board and now remains at the county Owenbeg headquarters.
The second show will be screened on Sunday (BBC One, 7pm) and the BBC has confirmed the third broadcast – to be screened in the coming months – will look at the Derry Girls exhibition at the city’s Tower Museum. The exhibition was created on the back of the hugely popular Lisa McGee-written comedy show.
The exhibition focuses on the 1990s and includes props from the era used in the Channel 4 comedy series.
Derry mayor, Patricia Logue said Sunday evening’s broadcast would show the many faces of Derry.
“I am so looking forward to seeing this episode of the Antiques Roadshow and finding out what the team discovered during their visit. The show has a bit of a cult following and it will be a great opportunity to tell our story to a new audience who probably don’t know a lot about the city other than what they have heard about the Troubles or through Derry Girls,” Ms Logue said.
