20.09.05
Dear Agnes
You know the drill! You’ve been round the circuit a few times! You could advise me!
John McCullagh
Bill Hanna’s life
In father’s absence at first – for six months or so – we stayed at Grandfather Bicker’s in Poyntzpass. Then my two sisters were fostered to two married aunts.
I was taken in by Granny Hanna who had already reared nine sons. She was more comfortable with boys. This was to my advantage as she was a lovely person and respected by all. Her life had been hard, helping grandfather to run the farm as well as rearing so many sons. It was a sad day for me when grandmother died when I was fourteen.
Emigration Patterns 2
The
St Joe’s Chess & Debating 65
The Chess team below shows: B. (L-R) Joe McGrath, Eric Johnston and Raymond O’Neill
F. (L-R) M Hollywood, Martin Treanor (Captain) and J Strain
The team was ably coached by popular teacher of the time Brian O’Hare.
Lisraw, 1920’s
I spent the first fifteen years of my life on my grandfather’s farm in the townland of Lisraw. The routine was school, farm work, hunting with dogs and ferrets and, rarely, playing with friends.
Kilkeel Ramblers 1945
The Kilkeel Ramblers of 1945 consisted of Pat Hudson (the photographer here) and (L-R)
Frank McCann, Helen Fearon, Alma Nicholson, John McConnell, Tony Cunningham, Teresa Hudson, Maura Morgan and Tom Quinn.
Presbyterians to America
One can only speculate what might have been the outcome of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland had not so many Ulster Presbyterians, the backbone of that radical movement the United Irishmen, left our shores in the eighteenth century to find a new life in America. Our previous article demonstrates what a huge effect these pioneering people had on the future history of that emerging nation on the other side of the
1957 Liverpool, Nurses’ Dance
O K, so this one is really difficult! But many of those pictured in this great period photo were Irish!
We will start you off with a few names. David Keane, brother of Tommy, ex-V.P. of the Abbey Grammar is in the middle of the back row, and beside him is fellow Lislea man, Johnny O’Donnell.
Ulster American Presidents
The Irish ancestry of president John F Kennedy is well-documented, but less well known is the Ulster ancestry of as many as seventeen of the forty-three Presidents of the USA.