John McCullagh

My friend Isobel McMahon (nee Tohill of Warrenpoint) might think I have forgotten her so, by way of compensation, here is a list of some residents of Warrenpoint some ninety years ago.

Read moreWarrenpoint 1916 Residents

I had hardly lain down it seemed to me, before it was time to get up again on that fateful departure day. The sun had risen and light flooded into the bedroom through the east-facing window.
 

Read moreThe final morning

He was not the first of her children to leave. A daughter had parted for England years before. But there was always the chance to see her again. This parting was different.

Read moreLeaving Old Eliza

The story of unwilling Irish emigrants to Canada

If you check on Google Earth, you will find that St Bride’s, Alberta, Canada is on a similar latitude to Newry but being in the centre of the North American continent, it experiences a radically different climate.  

Read moreArdboe Exile c1920

There was not a single family the same in Sinclair Street in 1914 as those we earlier listed from the 1940s. Here is the earlier list ….

Read moreSinclair Street 1914