Newry News and Irish Fun
John McCullagh 
Dear Agnes,
My mother should have prepared me better for the onset of this menopause! ‘Every time you ‘go warm’, she suggested, ‘is worth a guinea!’ What on earth did she mean? I’ll be ready for the 2,000
I feel like a Bunny ‘in heat’.
The Ring of Gullion, measuring roughly twenty-six miles by eleven and comprising some 15,000 hectares is defined topographically by the hills of the ring dyke.
The formation is practically unique globally and is thought to date originally to at least fifty million years ago at a time of great plate tectonic movement, when a collision of two massive plates may have dislodged into the earth’s mantle an enormous pluton that had intruded into the bottom of the crust at this point.
The photo below with the list of names was e-mailed to the Editor by Bernadette Manley who presently lives in the USA. We are confident that many of you will remember …
Maurice Connell: Thomas McKeown
Anne McKeown: Kathleen Manley: Anne Kane: Eithne Manley
Yvonne Connell: Hazel Smith: Theresa Kane
(P.S. A second photo is awaited!!)
Eamonn de Valera led the Anti-Treaty forces and as such, was a prohibited person in the new statlet of
There was a great variety of feelings palpable in the attitudes and the demeanour of Newry people in the immediate aftermath of the 1921 Government of Ireland Act : anger dominated – at forcible inclusion in the Six County State, but the people, though largely nationalist, were divided denominationally and politically, and each side was resentful of things from the recent past and suspicious of the other side’s every move. Yet apprehension for the future was the overriding feeling.
It was late summer of 1922 when we boarded a train at
When we lived there almost eighty years ago, the town of
An Outsider’s Twelfth
The photo reproduced below was submitted by former Newry resident Mr Gerald Duffy.
The individuals are identified on the reverse by the scrawled names:
Back: Joe Donnelly, Eddie Lamb and Joe Cardwell
Seated: Joe Byrne (Imperial Hotel), Frank Connor (Bridge St) and ?Peter Bremner(Australia)?
There seems to be some confusion as to whether Left Back or Left Front is Mr Cardwell!!
Please illuminate!!