Owen Roe O’Neill was the son of Art O’Neill, a younger brother of the Great Hugh O’Neill, and he was a famous Irish leader of the seventeenth century.
John McCullagh
Armagh City Crest
The Armagh Crest incorporates
Arms azure, on a bend, embattled between in chief,
Primatial Cross and in base, a harp
Crest : an ancient Irish Crown gold
Motto : In concilio Consilium – In Council, we plan
Births & Deaths : Bro C.I. Gallagher
Among the recently deceased, I learn from this week’s Parish Bulletin, are
15th August in the ‘Point
The following journalist for the ‘Telegraph’ – writing about the height of the tourist season in Warrenpoint in 1864 – was clearly inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity!
St Mary’s Street Residents 1917
Bagenals redeemed!
Gabe Sheridan sent us more details of family history which we consider worth reproducing. Perhaps the new historical information of greatest interest is that some Bagenal descendants opted for the democratic Republicanism of the United Irishmen of the last decade of the eighteenth century! Indeed at least one was put to death for his stance.
Bagenal lineage up to date!
The original Nicholas Bagenal was rabidly anti-Catholic (he lived through the [Protestant] Reformation and it was politically correct, and indeed personally advantageous to take such a stand) ….
After the Goldrush
I have no better excuse for reproducing the lyrics of this great song from one of the best and most successful albums of our time, than that I love it and it’s currently running through my head. Do you agree it was one of the all-time greats?
