On Irish Border, Worries That ‘Brexit’ Will Undo a Hard-Won Peace<br />Common Travel Area said that Nobody wants to return to the borders of the past,<br />Back at the Guildhall, Mr. Lynn, the tour guide, said<br />that having come this far, people in the city had no desire to return to the way things were before.<br />Reflecting that both sides have a point, government organizations (and the BBC) have succumbed to practicality and often write it as "Derry/Londonderry." "There’s no trouble here anymore," said Shauna McClenaghan, a civic leader in Inishowen, a nearby area of the republic<br />that is intimately connected to Londonderry politically and culturally, despite being across the international border.<br />He employs people from both north and south; does business in both north<br />and south (and abroad); and, along with some 325,000 other people per week, regularly drives back and forth, too many times to count, between the two places.<br />" Mr. Lynn said. that This city, this country, is like a woman who has given birth,<br />funding, from peace programs that benefit north and south promoting the notion<br />that we have more in common than we have differences," Ms. McClenaghan said.<br />"Derry’s just a city." Gerry Lynn, an amateur historian who leads tours at the Guildhall, the historic downtown building where the City Council meets, unleashed a condensed version of more than 1,000 extremely complex years of Irish history by way of explaining how far the country,<br />and the region, have come since the Troubles (not to mention the 1600s).
