20 Best Places To Visit in Ireland
Here you will find the best places to visit in Ireland. These are…
Lislea Drama Festival 2008
The Lislea Dr
Originally posted 2008-02-08 20:49:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Close Shave: concluded
The next day I set out once more with my camera to record what had happened to
Originally posted 2007-10-16 11:25:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Discipline at home
Discipline in the family was down to mother. I can recall only one occasion when my father punished me. I was swinging an old bicycle pump round my head in the street…
Originally posted 2008-10-23 22:27:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Titanic Loss … concluded
We conclude the poem of T J Charleston on The Loss of the Titanic.
Originally posted 2010-12-11 11:08:40. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The ‘Ragged’ School
This is the latest in our occasional series on hidden Newry. Can you identify the following home and the plaque which is erected just outside its front door?
Originally posted 2007-05-21 19:50:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Knights Templar in Newry
We assume, partly because a full page of the local Democrat was alloted to the story, that some research was undertaken into the authenticity of this story.
Originally posted 2006-07-22 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Paddy McGourgan’s Field
When I was about five years old in the late 1940’s I first stepped into the field, over the broken wall at the yard at our house in Maginness Street with the help of a ladder my father had bought from a man at his work.
Originally posted 2011-01-17 12:50:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Bridewell Detainees
Seemingly it was normal practice to detain temporarily in The Bridewell, all those in breach of army regulations, and deserters.
Then they were conveyed to more permanent and secure places of confinement.
Originally posted 2005-03-15 12:04:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
On the Buses in Kent
Perhaps other Newry exiles in England and abroad have had early experiences of work similar to my own, which follow.
Or could anyone else possibly have been as stupid as me?
None of this seemed funny at the time but I shall leave you to judge.
We were pretty desperate for work then in the early 60s and were prepared to travel to
Originally posted 2006-02-23 21:27:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Monaghan Street O’Hanlons: 18 C
Last time we got as far as Hugh O’Hanlon of Newry, born 1721 who survived to 1 April 1807. By his wife
Originally posted 2007-09-29 22:16:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter