McGladdery’s home was searched and there the police, among other suspicious items found a copy of Mickey Spillane’s The Long Wait …
John McCullagh
Wooden Chalices
You might suspect
that the following
epigram was
recently written.
Not so.
It’s from the
17th century!
Gold priests, wooden chalices
In Ireland of Patrick’s time
Golden chalices, wooden priests
As the wretched world stands now!
How Many?
Initially ‘How Many’ ?
1 7 W of the W
2 1001 A N
3 52 C in a D
4 9 P in the S S
5 88 P K
6 13 S on the A F
7 32 D at which W F
8 18 H on a G C
9 90 D in a R A
10 200 D for P G in M
11 3 B M (S H T R)
12 4 Q in a G
13 24 H in a D
14 1 W on a U
15 57 H V
16 11 P on a F T
17 29 D in F of a L Y
18 64 s on a C B
19 40 D and N of the G F
20 50 S in the U
21 12 in a D
22 9 P on a B T
23 60 S in a M
24 4 W on a C
25 2 P in a Q
Carlingford Marina
This is a view of Carlingford Marina with a sudden rain squall over the mournes in the distance.
Workhouse 7
AFTER THE FAMINE
Even among neighbouring Poor Law Unions, Newry had a reputation for niggardliness in its treatment of its paupers.
Hollands and friends
It’s over fifty years ago now. These five girls and one boy posed for the camera perched on a large rock against the backdrop of the old and deserted Willis’s Bakery.
Tom McKeown delivers milk
In the mid 40’s every boy tried hard to get an after-school job. I was no different. My first job was in Frank Sweeney’s chemist shop – now Connolly’s Shoe Shop. My job was washing medicine bottles using a bottle brush and a bath of cold water. All the old bottles that were returned to the shop had to be washed and dried for reuse and I was paid 3/6d for this task.
Puzzles 1
Fun Corner
Hidden in the bureaucratic gobbledygook below are common proverbs and expressions. The answers are below.
Scintillate, scintillate, minor asteroid
Neophyte’s serendipity
Members of an avian species of similar plumage congregate en masse
Surveillance should precede saltation
Pulchritude possesses merely cutaneous profundity
Do not become lacrymose over precipitately discharged lacteal fluid
Avoidance of grime encrustations is contiguous to rectitude
The stylus is more potent than the claymore
Male cadavers yield no testimony
Efforts to indoctrinate innovative manoeuvres to superannuated canines must fail
ANSWERS
Twinkle, twinkle, little star : Beginners’ luck : Birds of a feather, flock together : Look before you leap : Beauty is only skin deep: Don’t cry over spilt milk : Cleanliness is next to godliness : The pen is mightier than the sword: Dead men tell no lies : You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.