Peter Mallon and his Committee, Friends of Calvary have been working quietly behind the scenes to renovate, resurface, upgrade and repaint the Stations’ images and wording at this famous landmark.
Newry News and Irish Fun
Peter Mallon and his Committee, Friends of Calvary have been working quietly behind the scenes to renovate, resurface, upgrade and repaint the Stations’ images and wording at this famous landmark.
With the first signs of Spring come the amateur drama festivals and below is reproduced that for the beautiful village of Lislea in South Armagh.
We continue our lists of those 835 men (and one woman) from Newry who volunteered for military service in the first 6 months of the Great War.
Full normal service has not yet resumed on Journal because I am still missing many of the drivers and programs that service the site. However as promised, I continue the WWI Recruits lists.
We will shortly return to listing residents of Newry streets from ninety years ago so that some comparison is possible with these Army Lists. Also we strongly recommend our readership to consult the 1911 Census now on line courtesy of the National Archives. Please continue your comments on Threads.
Where was Patrick’s Place? It is notable from these lists how religious or ethnic background was irrelevant when it came to National Service. Note also father and son Tom Cahill from Hyde Market. If you have any comment, open up a new Thread, please.
I found it disturbing to learn that the document to follow – a list of all those Newry people who voluntarily enlisted in the British Army and Navy from the outbreak of war up to the end of April 1915 – was recovered from a rubbish skip where it had been idly set aside!
A few hundred yards upstream from here was that part of the
Way back in the fifties the track on the canal towpath was also a much vaunted place for swimming, that is, in the days before the opening of the Bacon Factory. I remember as a young boy coming down here with my friends and watching with
Every now and then some of them would swim back over to us youngsters to make sure we were ok as we paddled our feet and splashed about in the much shallower
We would have loved to have been able to perform some of those daring acts of aquatic skill, but my friends and I were too young and non-swimmers. All that we could manage was paddling our feet and splashing about in the shallow water.
There was a way however that enabled the younger kids to cross the canal so that they could get to sit on that wall along with the big boys. If we were to walk further on along the tow path until we came to the next lock on the canal – we called this lock McKnight’s Lock – there was at this place an old rickety wooden bridge across to the other side of the canal. If we could cross here then we could walk back down the opposite bank to join with the other lads on the wall.
There was one problem with this plan though! The bridge was a ‘toll’ bridge! There was a charge of tuppence levied against all who wished to cross. Most of the time we didn’t have this rather large amount of cash on our persons, so then we had to resort to that other method, namely, to surreptitiously sneak across.
Swimming in the canal and
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As we prepare to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany and bring our seasonal celebrations to a close, it might be appropriate to view these images from the depictions in two local Churches, Dromalane and St Catherines.