We like occasionally to upload items that might be of use to readers in search of their ancestors. To this end, glancing through a certain ‘roots’ website, we found someone seeking evidence of the marriage in Newry in 1847 of one Henry Martin.
John McCullagh
County Down Hero
This poem’s my opinion,
there’s no scientific proof,
some readers they will disagree,
and say it’s not the truth.
Captain Francis Crozier
Captain Crozier: Last Man Standing [Collins Press,
Free Cash!
We have recently learned that The Mournes has been awarded the coveted title of ‘Best Holiday Destination in the
St Mary’s Republican Plot
The recently erected steel tribute panel to fallen comrades on the Republican Plot in St Mary’s Cemetery pays homage to the three men who died during and after the Egyptian Arch ambush of Monday 13 December 1920.
Tarror
The visiting American University academic professed an interest in semantics, and especially in the local variety of word usage.
Paddy Boyle of Tiffcrum
Paddy Boyle of Tiffcrum, one-time known as a beggar-man, worked, while he was able ‘digging spuds’ for local farmers.
Ireland sold at Derramore?
Certainly Castlereagh and Isaac Corry were co-conspirators in the betrayal of
Castlereagh prospered on the larger stage of British politics.