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John McCullagh

She leaned over!

June 5, 2020September 2, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Dear Agnes

I need your advice on a very delicate subject.

Behind my husband’s back I have been seeing a man …..

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Curfew in Linenhall Square

June 5, 2020September 1, 2007 by John McCullagh
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August 12th of this year was the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of a curfew in the Newry area.  The then Stormont government introduced the curfew as a measure to combat the IRA’s border campaign of 1956-1962.

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Eye Contact

June 5, 2020August 28, 2007 by John McCullagh
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I see your face beneath a starry sky

Arms extended with gun in hand

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Recently deceased

June 5, 2020August 25, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Among the recently deceased of the Newry Parish are …

Eleanor McVerry Grinan Road

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400th anniversary of Flight/Earls

June 5, 2020August 24, 2007 by John McCullagh
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It is fitting that in the 400th anniversary year of the Flight of the Earls, Newry’s own Dr John McCavitt should launch an illustrated History of the event and times. John, originally of Derrybeg Estate …

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Bishop Garvey of Dromore

June 5, 2020August 24, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Encased in the wall that abuts Chapel Street in St Mary’s Cemetery is an old tombstone that was originally the frontispiece of a crypt erected June 15th 1763 – some three years before his death and interment there – for Bishop of Dromore Anthony Garvey and members of his family. 

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I want your hands …

June 5, 2020August 19, 2007 by John McCullagh
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I want your hands to touch mine

To lead me through the darkness

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“Buried alive” : In the Coffin

June 5, 2020August 3, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Now this was bad.  I knew that I had no chance of raising the lid, as he was the heavier of the two of us. Besides if he turned the screws home, that was it for me!

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The Coffin

June 5, 2020August 3, 2007 by John McCullagh
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During the Sixties we had a range of local businesses with a dual aspect to them; like, a grocery shop and a pub; or maybe, a hardware shop with petrol pumps outside on the pavement. 

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