I received as a Christmas gift, the paperback of this work – released last Christmas in hardback – after running on BBC Radio Ulster for months of short programmes. It is excellent.
John McCullagh
Looney Russian Roulette
‘Esau Looney was a firearms expert,’ said the Sheriff,
‘who liked to teach people how to safely handle firearms.
Horrocks Weavers
These lovely ladies worked in Horrocks Clothing Factory on the Warrenpoint Road some 55 years ago. Do you remember any of these faces? The names are reproduced below!
Music-makers
For some unknown reason, certain phrases within dramas and/or poems become enshrined in the language. The first lines of this for example, and the phrase ‘movers and shakers’.
In any case when you are next in the Town Hall, you might choose to draw attention to the inscription around the balcony’s frontage (the first couplet of this poem) and flaunt your knowledge!
The Field: EXTRA
Need a break from Christmas shopping? Not getting out enough? Why not try “The Field” at the Town Hall this Sunday or Monday nights ?
The Presence of God …
Despite our collective anguish at the current Church crisis, we remember our individual spiritual lives: my contribution is this moving poem by Plunkett :
I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes …
Newry I Knew: Tom Wharton
I was born in July 1938 in a rented house which was situated in a place called the Blind Fields …
