Newry News and Irish Fun
These photos of the recent past are of many places, housing estates etc. around Newry. Enjoy, and try to identify each place. Answers in the Discussion Board please and we will put labels on all the photos later.
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The final in the present series of Manley family snaps. Our picture shows (L-R) Eddie Hughes, Stephen and Kitty Manley (Bernadette’s parents) Alice McKeown (aunt) Josephine Manley (sister) Kathleen Manley (sister) Bridie McKeown Hughes (cousin) Marie Manley (sister) and finally, with the dog, Mickey Rooney (uncle).
Isn’t that the McKeown home on Catherine Street, facing St Joseph’s School entrance?
Dialect ‘W’
Wabbley (Wobbly) unsteady
Wabbler ‘he tuk a wabbler’ he suffered a fit, a ‘turn’
Wad handful, i.e. of money, rags, straw etc.
Waited on dying, ‘she’s being waited on, God spare her!’
Wag n. comic fool: v. to beckon, wave finger threateningly
This time – finally – Bernadette has produced a photograph which includes an image of herself. Mind you, she’s quite young in it! That’s her in the back row with a bow in her hair and a hanky in her hand!
The whole list is:
Back from left: Kathleen O’Hagan: Anne McKeown: Bernadette Manley: Kathleen Manley:
Sean Rogan: Gerald Connell: Maureen Connell: Noel Connell: Ethna Manley
From its centre the Ring of Gullion seems almost impenetrable past the rugged hills that surround its lowlands. Within the plain (Maigh) the curving elongate Gullion deceives the eye so that you seem always to be at the centre of a Ring.
The road traveller may note conflicting milepost directions: for example to the left it’s eight miles to Newry; to the right, nine miles to Newry! The northerly route takes you round Gullion on the Camlough side, the other skirts Gullion’s tail at Dromintee.
My advice? Take both roads! You cannot afford to miss either view!
Dear Agnes,
My mother should have prepared me better for the onset of this menopause! ‘Every time you ‘go warm’, she suggested, ‘is worth a guinea!’ What on earth did she mean? I’ll be ready for the 2,000
I feel like a Bunny ‘in heat’.
The Ring of Gullion, measuring roughly twenty-six miles by eleven and comprising some 15,000 hectares is defined topographically by the hills of the ring dyke.
The formation is practically unique globally and is thought to date originally to at least fifty million years ago at a time of great plate tectonic movement, when a collision of two massive plates may have dislodged into the earth’s mantle an enormous pluton that had intruded into the bottom of the crust at this point.
The photo below with the list of names was e-mailed to the Editor by Bernadette Manley who presently lives in the USA. We are confident that many of you will remember …
Maurice Connell: Thomas McKeown
Anne McKeown: Kathleen Manley: Anne Kane: Eithne Manley
Yvonne Connell: Hazel Smith: Theresa Kane
(P.S. A second photo is awaited!!)
Eamonn de Valera led the Anti-Treaty forces and as such, was a prohibited person in the new statlet of