The distinguished man with the abundant facial fungus pictured below is about to feature in a number of anecdotes on site here, so I’d better introduce him.
Addy McLoughlin
John McCullagh
Dick’s Emigrants
‘There was much talk around my table in Dick’s back in the late 1960s, of jobs – or rather, of the lack of them ….
Dick’s Ashtray
This ashtray was originally from the Lido Caf
It has, scratched on its surface the names of a lot of local young people of that time, that is, the mid nineteen sixties.
Are any of your names amongst this lot?
Or do you know anyone named here?
Maria Fearon
Olwen Dean
Gerry Brady
Maria McEvoy
Alicia Hanratty
Myles McKevitt
M Cunningham
John Cully
Benny McKeown
Jim McManus
Jean Havern
K Peters
Ann Hagan
Martin Blair
I was a bus?
There are a few other single Christian names and assorted initials also.
There are no political or paramilitary references, no swear words or no sexual innuendos.
We all were an innocent lot in those days.
The ashtray is quite genuine and was in the
Tent-sized knickers
Dear Agnes
Why is it that as a woman’s age increases chronologically, her girth swells geometrically and her knickers size exponentially?
Country People
O country people, you of the hill farms,
Huddled so in darkness I cannot tell
Whether the light across the glen is a star ..
Gallaghers remembered
In response to our tribute to the late Michael Gallagher, we have been inundated with people’s recollections of the shop in North Street. Our regular contributor Patrick J White, formerly of O’Neill Avenue sent us a few photos which we are happy to reproduce here.
Michael Gallagher RIP
It is with great regret that we announce the death today of Michael Gallagher (pictured) of
Pathetic courting couple
Dear Agnes
Don’t you agree with me that there is no more loathsome a sight than ….
Newry Streets and Scenes Today
These photos are meant especially for exiles who may not know what the town looks like now: click on each photo for an enlargement.