When first I was hauled unwillingly to the Foresters’ Hall in
No way was I for continuing at this carry-on!! Imagine wasting a Thursday afternoon stuck in this hall. Never mind EVERY Thursday afternoon.
Irish Dancing
John McCullagh
Satellite View of Slieve Gullion
This 3D Satellite View of Slieve Gullion (left), Fathom and Anglesey Mountains (right), the conurbation of Newry (top) and Warrenpoint (right, below) is obtained from NASA World Wind. The ‘Gap of the North’ is illuminated (middle) along the main N-S road.
Silver reflection (far right) is of lakes and dams in the Burren area.
For Carmel!
You remember old Peggy that used have the cart
With the sweets and the jib and the wee apple tarts
Bananas and oranges and pears in a keg
The grapes and the buns and the brown ‘Peggy’s Leg’
Ti Chulainn Weekend
Next weekend (Fri-Sun 17-19 June) features the re-launch of Ti Chulainn Centre, Mullaghbawn with an official Opening Ceremony at 7.30 on Friday evening followed by a buffet supper and a traditional session with award-winning musicians promised.
Name the Newry Places
These photos of the recent past are of many places, housing estates etc. around Newry. Enjoy, and try to identify each place. Answers in the Discussion Board please and we will put labels on all the photos later.
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1959 McKeowns/Manleys
The final in the present series of Manley family snaps. Our picture shows (L-R) Eddie Hughes, Stephen and Kitty Manley (Bernadette’s parents) Alice McKeown (aunt) Josephine Manley (sister) Kathleen Manley (sister) Bridie McKeown Hughes (cousin) Marie Manley (sister) and finally, with the dog, Mickey Rooney (uncle).
Isn’t that the McKeown home on Catherine Street, facing St Joseph’s School entrance?
Fews Glossary: W
Dialect ‘W’
Wabbley (Wobbly) unsteady
Wabbler ‘he tuk a wabbler’ he suffered a fit, a ‘turn’
Wad handful, i.e. of money, rags, straw etc.
Waited on dying, ‘she’s being waited on, God spare her!’
Wag n. comic fool: v. to beckon, wave finger threateningly
Magennis St Children
This time – finally – Bernadette has produced a photograph which includes an image of herself. Mind you, she’s quite young in it! That’s her in the back row with a bow in her hair and a hanky in her hand!
The whole list is:
Back from left: Kathleen O’Hagan: Anne McKeown: Bernadette Manley: Kathleen Manley:
Sean Rogan: Gerald Connell: Maureen Connell: Noel Connell: Ethna Manley
Ring Again…
From its centre the Ring of Gullion seems almost impenetrable past the rugged hills that surround its lowlands. Within the plain (Maigh) the curving elongate Gullion deceives the eye so that you seem always to be at the centre of a Ring.
The road traveller may note conflicting milepost directions: for example to the left it’s eight miles to Newry; to the right, nine miles to Newry! The northerly route takes you round Gullion on the Camlough side, the other skirts Gullion’s tail at Dromintee.
My advice? Take both roads! You cannot afford to miss either view!