Newry News and Irish Fun
This home video is of the Newry Civil Rights march following Bloody Sunday, setting out from Derrybeg and proceeding down the Camlough Road to The Meadow below. The footage was shot by Tom McKeown, a regular contributor to the Newry Journal.
John Hume is clearly visible at the beginning of the clip – if you see anyone else or want to discuss this video please use the Guestbook. A short account of that day has been posted here.
The letter from the mail people, under the logo in the top right had a textphone number for ‘the deaf and the hard of hearing’.
The text of the message below was clearly aimed at the ‘slow of learning’.
I was talking about the Missioners a while back.
This was the time that parishioners could renew their spiritual lives and people turned up in droves. A ‘fire and brimstone’ priest, usually from one of the Orders, like the Jesuits would be brought in to exhort people to turn away from the temptations of the flesh and dedicate their lives to God.
Dearest Agnes,
Being the soul of discretion and much to be admired, perhaps you could tell me what will happen when the Bolshi Council in that wonderful City of
Will the populace pay the bill or will they resort to withholding payment or even to striking as they have done in the past. Would it be too much to hope for, that responsible Councillors might get kicked in the ‘cooley kickem’s?
What about a separate vote on this one?
Regards
Water Tight.
Dialect ‘S’ 5 of 7
Snig : cut or slash; remove burning end of cigarette with the intention of re-lighting it later
Snigger : laugh
Soople : active
We were born before 1940….
..before TV, penicillin, polio shots, frozen food, Xerox, contact lenses, videos and the pill…
The smuggling of cattle was a favourite with the ‘big boys’.
It was more dangerous – carried on at night on ‘unapproved roads’ that were often patrolled – but also much more profitable.
Apart from fat profits made by ‘Spivs’ or ‘wide boys’ as we named them, there was the odd shilling too for those of us youngsters who possessed a bicycle. Those were few enough, and less of their owners willing and able to indulge in the ‘smuggling trade’ along the Fathom Line.
It is understood that the Inland Revenue, having heard of the success of a similar scheme in southern