2006 | Page 36 of 36 | Newry Journal

Nature Photos on Slides

June 8, 2020January 5, 2006 by John McCullagh

You get what you want on Newry Journal. And it’s obvious you can’t get enough photos. Hope you like this new selection by my son’s girlfriend, Katharine Beaven, of Orkney in Scotland.

Christmas Farewell (’06)

June 8, 2020January 4, 2006 by John McCullagh

As my mate Brendan Milligan – and other returned migrants – once again embark on the Belfast Ferry (pictured), we offer you one last local glimpse of Christmas 2005.

Montgomery & Hamilton

June 8, 2020January 3, 2006 by John McCullagh

There had been considerable cross-Channel migration – from Scotland to Ulster – even in Tudor times, but the trickle became a flood in the first decade of the seventeenth century, when the Scottish King James (VI) became King James I of England. Indeed it was the success of two Ayreshire Scots in pioneering an Ulster Settlement in 1606 that inspired King James’ Virginia (Jamestown) settlement in the New World; and the Plantation of Ulster that began just a few short years later.

Kings on the Roof

June 8, 2020January 2, 2006 by John McCullagh

I live within waving distance of a railway line; but, although I have kept a long and patient vigil, I have never once seen passengers fighting on the roof of a train – even a stationary one.