There was a time when several dozen local bar owners and their spouses attended the annual Vintners night-out in Newry.
John McCullagh
Rankin Memoirs 2
After a month in Philadelphia in 1914, I joined the state’s National Guard. The Irish friends I had made at the Irish Club would not hear of joining, claiming that it was composed of the worst elements in the city. But I wanted military experience for the future. Also I wanted to acquire some ammunition.
Burke and Hare murders
Perhaps the most infamous character ever to come from Newry (it is said) in the past two centuries is William Hare.
Carlingford: Lewis 1837
‘Carlingford is beautifully situated on the south-west side of the spacious lough or bay to which it gives its name, and immediately at the base of an extensive range of mountains which terminate at this point.
Hector: in Penny Apples
On Santanta’s instigation I took another look recently at Bill Cullen’s ‘It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples’. A decade old now, it feels as if it’s of another age. And it tells of another earlier age, the 40s and 50s in working-class Dublin.
Thomas Davis, Young Irelander
In my youth, my role model patriots were James Larkin (mainly because of his strong working-class credentials as well as the fact that his parents hailed from here) James Connolly and John Mitchel. Where repression, discrimination and exclusion dominate, one tends towards the extremes.
Emigration 1950s and 2011
The involuntary emigration of tens of thousands of our fittest, best-educated, most qualified and most enterprising of our youth, has sadly resumed.
Perhaps we ought to reflect on that of an earlier generation.
Water Street Electors 1946
Joe McCaigue and Gerry Montague wrote here recently on Guestbook, reminiscing on the residents of Water Street in days gone by.
They might be interested in this Electoral List dating from 1946.
Postcard ‘Point/Rostrevor
Before people could afford to fly abroad for summer holidays, many went to Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. The product had to be advertised!