The Pillars were a soccer team of Newry/Bessbrook some sixty years ago. Sadly the majority here have passed on. But still very much alive and the donor of the photograph, is Dickie Rodgers, third from the left at the back.
The Pillars
Month: January 2006
Ballinalack Tunnel
Have another look at that panorama of
No Room in the Crib
Officials in the Library in Memphis ordered the removal from the Crib display there of some figures it had deemed (on ‘politically-correct’ grounds, we presume) inappropriate. Perhaps someone had objected to the deification of a child born out of wedlock, the public flaunting of his parents, the prominence offered to strangely-dressed travellers – perhaps illegal immigrants. The infant Jesus, his mother, St Joseph and the three Wise Men were taken away.
There are Dervishes everywhere!
Gentry Directory:19th Century
We have already had a favourable reaction to the posting of that initial list from the 19th Century Directory. The following is the rest of ‘Gentry Etc’ from mid-nineteenth century Newry.
19th Century Gentry
It is sometimes revealing, always interesting to review lists of prominent townspeople from past ages – if merely to note who contemporaries were. The following is of ‘Gentry Etc’ from the mid-nineteenth century.
Seavers of Killeavey
At the suppression of the Killeavey Convent under Henry VIII in the 1540s – a Convent then believed to be under the authority of the Culdees – the lands were seized and allotted to one Marmaduke Whitchurch. He failed to prosper there but a daughter married Nicholas Seaver of Lusk,
New Year in Orkney
I am endebted to photographer and son, Steven McCullagh, currently residing in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands who took these excellent photographs and emailed them to me for the Newry Journal readership.
Hidden Newry: One
I thought I’d begin a series on ‘Hidden Newry’. Our first item couldn’t be more conspicuous! I guess I’ve passed by the house below ten thousand times without paying the slightest bit of attention. You must say where it is. First, a story!