Newry Film Club: 4 June
Newry Arts Centre Film Club (NACFC) has been formed in 2007 by a group of volunteer film enthusiasts to bring a range of films not usually shown by commercial cinemas to the residents of Newry and the surrounding area.
Originally posted 2008-05-28 22:14:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
20 Best Places To Visit in Ireland
Here you will find the best places to visit in Ireland. These are…
Handloom Weaver
Originally posted 2004-12-09 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
New Years Honour?
Dear Agnes,
I’m a blunt man and I’ll come straight to the point! You, it’s said, have a finger in every pie and you know how to grease the wheels of government! Can you put some suitable award in my direction? I mean, surely I deserve to be decorated for my community and charitable efforts?
Originally posted 2005-12-25 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Bishop O’Doherty
It was about that time that the Bishop of Dromore, the Rev Edmund Mulhern went to his eternal rest. Our new bishop, a
Originally posted 2005-04-28 14:31:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Prison Notes
Newry Journal was delighted recently to have been offered a few reminiscences of veteran Republican Dan Moore from his early days of resistance to British Rule.
Originally posted 2008-03-06 11:09:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
I walked the road
Today I walked the road
I skipped along when I was young
And fought to quell the rising melancholy in my heart:
Originally posted 2006-10-23 16:59:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Greencastle St, Kilkeel, 1906
Annie Sloane
Misses Hughes
Ellen Anderson
Miss O’Hagan
Mrs Mitchell ……..
Originally posted 2006-09-23 19:00:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Paddy’s first flight!
As I write this story, my best friend is taking a flight over Newry on board a microlight. You know, one of those tiny airplanes. And it’s on that account I recall the story of Paddy and Biddy Rice’s flight some eighty years ago over
Originally posted 2007-05-01 18:20:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Second Russell ‘Sister’
The Russells of Dominic Street in the nineteenth century had a privileged childhood. Although well-off they were still unpampered and unspoilt. Of the five surviving children, all three girls became Sisters of Mercy one of the two boys became a Jesuit priest and the other, Charles a famous lawyer and eventually Lord Chief Justice of
Originally posted 2005-10-04 09:18:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Annamar school: Petie the rogue!
In those days at Annamar School, my older brother Petie was a real scamp! If there was devilment, it was he who was at the centre of it. There was a house of the road that doubled as a local shop – there were lots of those in them days!
Originally posted 2007-03-07 09:11:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Air Raid Shelter
He might have been Joe’s father or grandfather. Certainly he displayed signs of similar mental function. The time was back in the war
Originally posted 2006-05-29 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
1960 Ballinlare Gardens Newry
Ballinlare Gardens, in 1960, was the home of our readers Mark Byrne, Peter…
Newry Canal Opens
Contrary to frequently expressed sentiment, Newry Canal was not the first in these Islands, but the first summit-level canal; the first, that is, to be fed from a lake at higher level, in our case Acton Lake, some half-way along its length.
Originally posted 2010-12-03 09:21:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter