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History Tomorrow
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Written by Sean Maguire   
Saturday, 03 December 2005

You sang along

To a song on the radio -

it was old, vintage stuff

nineteen sixties, I presume

the melody lingered in my head

as I ploughed through

City Hall records

pruning branches on my family tree.


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Emigration to American Isles
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Written by John McCullagh   
Saturday, 03 December 2005

We have written before of the great Ulster Presbyterian migrations from here to America during the eighteenth century. Few Catholics crossed the Atlantic then. Even if they possessed the inclination and the ingenuity to get to America, few Catholic Irish had the means.  Indeed, before the American Revolution (until about 1780) Catholic immigration was officially forbidden in the Americas.

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Warrenpoint Ferry Boat
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Written by John McCullagh   
Friday, 02 December 2005

For very good reasons, your editor associates the shore and the public baths of Warrenpoint with his childhood friend Vincent McAllister, with whom he often ‘hitched’ a lift there in the bygone days of yore!

 

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