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John McCullagh

Domestic Help

June 7, 2020October 5, 2006 by John McCullagh
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I speculated last time on why Hewitt’s early life poems struck a chord with me.  

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Local Studies Library at risk!

June 7, 2020October 5, 2006 by John McCullagh
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I met Martin Goss in the Irish and Local Studies Library in Armagh City yesterday. Martin was engaged on research for the Dromore Diocesan Historical Society ….

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Tossed out of the Independent Club

June 7, 2020October 3, 2006 by John McCullagh
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In the Independent Club many years ago, the playing of cards in the Band Room was a common occurrence.  This took place on most nights but Sunday afternoon and evening was the best time for the game of cards – whether it was rummy, poker or pontoon.

 

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Travelling Clinic

June 7, 2020October 2, 2006 by John McCullagh
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The public is respectfully informed that the renowned Doctor Taylor from Manchester, universally known as the water-doctor  ………

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Grass Widows

June 7, 2020October 1, 2006 by John McCullagh
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Dear Agnes,

I am a modern man. I can accept that women have their shortcomings. Especially as they grow older, they cannot be expected, for example, to maintain the same quality of housekeeping as when they were younger. 

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Ship Canal history

June 7, 2020September 30, 2006 by John McCullagh
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The Newry Ship Canal was built in the mid-nineteenth century by ‘Thomas Orme and Christopher Myers, Engineers respectively of the lower Lagan and upper Coalisland Canals‘. 

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Mutual back-scratching

June 7, 2020September 29, 2006 by John McCullagh
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I read in the trivia pages of a national newspaper lately of a device patented by a New York company that is sure to attract the keen attention of our Newry and Mourne Council Directors – not to mention many another administrative body in these parts!

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Taking night classes

June 7, 2020September 29, 2006 by John McCullagh
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What could I do indeed?  I had little formal education having left school in St Bride’s when I was half-way through grade seven – and no marketable skills.

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Eye candy sought

June 7, 2020September 21, 2006 by John McCullagh
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This is rather a delicate matter, Agnes, so I hope I can rely on your discretion! 

I trust I am not too late to enrol on an evening course at the Newry Institute?

 

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