There may be a few returning emigrants at this time of year who will be grateful for this glance back in time to Old Rostrevor ….. or maybe some among the rest, who never left!
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There may be a few returning emigrants at this time of year who will be grateful for this glance back in time to Old Rostrevor ….. or maybe some among the rest, who never left!
During my all too brief visit to Newry in 2005 I had an even briefer visit to Edward Street.
Given the very limited information we have already on Mary (Curran) Martin, how might we find out more?
McGladdery had thrown the lifeless body in a bunch of thorns at a place known as Weir’s Rocks and flung some of her clothes on top.
Later on, during the war, I joined the Home Guard. In the Home Guard they gave me a rifle and bullets as part of my outfit.
I had to work too! One of my early jobs was to ‘walk’ cattle.
It’s just a photo of a middle-aged lady long ago standing at the junction of Bull’s Hill and Aileen Terrace, isn’t it?
It was the year of The Somme and many of Kilkeel’s sons fought and died there. It also was the year of the Carlingford Lough Disaster when the
One of the interesting general histories of Newry past is that of Thomas Bradshaw, contained in Bradshaw’s General Directory of Newry (and other towns) of 1820. We quote sparingly from it ….