Have another look at that panorama of
Ballinalack Tunnel
Year: 2006
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!
18th Century Famine
Scientists recently identified as the greatest danger to Ireland, Britain and Northern Europe, the possibility of the failure of the massive under-ocean current, the North Atlantic conveyor, which – by diverting the ‘Gulf Stream’ to our direction – gives us a much warmer climate than our latitude would normally merit. Ironically, in this part of the world, the first, most-dramatic and irreversible effect of rampant global warming will be much lower temperatures overall.