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Written by John McCullagh
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Tuesday, 27 September 2005 |
A short video clip from Newry Canal Festival boat race in the 1970s. 'Get me to the Church on time!' [double vertical bars button to 'pause'] |
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Written by Ronald Ban Donaldson
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Saturday, 17 September 2005 |
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I have been assured by a number of people who usually
know what they’re talking about, that Jesse James’s forebears hailed from South Armagh.
There are a few cynics too, who would be surprised if this were not
so!
In any case this is the story of
Ronald Ban Donaldson, whose forebears certainly did, and whose distant American
relations were acquaintances of that same James family. |
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Written by John McCullagh
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Friday, 16 September 2005 |
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One can only speculate what might have been the
outcome of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland had not so many Ulster Presbyterians,
the backbone of that radical movement the United Irishmen, left our shores in
the eighteenth century to find a new life in America. Our previous article demonstrates what a huge
effect these pioneering people had on the future history of that emerging
nation on the other side of the Atlantic.
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