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John McCullagh

Ebenezer Chapel Marriages

June 7, 2020May 18, 2006 by John McCullagh

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.

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County Down Hero

June 7, 2020May 18, 2006 by John McCullagh
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This poem’s my opinion,
there’s no scientific proof,
some readers they will disagree,
and say it’s not the truth.

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Captain Francis Crozier

June 7, 2020May 16, 2006 by John McCullagh
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Captain Crozier: Last Man Standing [Collins Press, Cork] is a biography to be published within the next month, of Banbridge polar hero Francis Crozier. 

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Free Cash!

June 7, 2020May 13, 2006 by John McCullagh
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We have recently learned that The Mournes has been awarded the coveted title of ‘Best Holiday Destination in the British Isles‘.

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St Mary’s Republican Plot

June 7, 2020May 12, 2006 by John McCullagh
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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.

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IT Illiterate

June 7, 2020May 11, 2006 by John McCullagh
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Our administrator works in the field!  Here’s a few choice recent responses!


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Tarror

June 7, 2020May 11, 2006 by John McCullagh
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The visiting American University academic professed an interest in semantics, and especially in the local variety of word usage. 

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Paddy Boyle of Tiffcrum

June 7, 2020May 9, 2006 by John McCullagh
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Paddy Boyle of Tiffcrum, one-time known as a beggar-man, worked, while he was able ‘digging spuds’ for local farmers.

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Ireland sold at Derramore?

June 7, 2020May 8, 2006 by John McCullagh
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Certainly Castlereagh and Isaac Corry were co-conspirators in the betrayal of Ireland that resulted in the Act of Union – and shortly after, more happily, in the end of the infamous political career at least of the latter.

Castlereagh prospered on the larger stage of British politics.

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