The Molly Maguires originated in
Molly Maguires
John McCullagh
Hannah tragedy
Considering the season of the year, the passage of the Hannah from Newry to
Hannah Sails
The plight of the poor has always proved a fruitful opportunity for unprincipled entrepreneurs to line their own pockets.
By the mid-nineteenth century records of Shipping Intelligence for British ports (including the
EHS Report Shortcomings
We stated earlier that we would look again at the EHS’s report on McCann’s Bakery and specifically on the continuation of its ‘Historical Information’.
Sarah Parker: deaths
Overall the record of ships departing Newry for
Emigrant Ships: ‘Brothers’
The Irish famine, it hardly needs emphasising, had an enormous impact on the course of Irish history. Its ramifications impinged greatly not only on the demography of the country but also on its socioeconomic and cultural development.
Abbott’s House or Castle?
The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) is the Government body charged with the preservation of historic monuments and as part of a survey five and a half years ago produced an assessment of McCann’s Bakery.
Newry Museum building: 1
Now that renovation of McCann’s Bakery is almost complete we can expect shortly to be again bombarded with ‘evidence’ that Newry’s ‘new’ Museum is in fact the very same building that was entitled ‘The New Castell’ on the earliest known map of ‘The Towne of The Newrye’ – the same building that Canavan, Newry’s definitive historian, referred to as the Abbott’s House.
