We all had a super time last Sunday at Upper Damolly Road, celebrating the birthday of a great girl, Lucia Welsh. Thank you all for the invite!
John McCullagh
Lucia Welsh’s 60th Birthday
Just about everyone in the town knows Lucia Welsh so it was a great privelege and honour to be among those invited to share her birthday celebration – first at a Mass celebrated in St Clare’s Chapel by her brother Fr Oscar Welsh, and then at the home of her aunt Tara McIntyre.
Intimations of Immortality
Dear Santanta: beset as you clearly are this summer morn with intimations of mortality, I thought perhaps … Wordsworth’s Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood … ?
this is just the first stanza …
Dole Office Management 1960s
The Newry Social Security Office Manager then, in the early 1960s was Billy Sterritt from Warrenpoint.
Jenny’s Triangle found!
It is little wonder that the baby in the photo below is so goggle-eyed! Is he thinking – ‘wow! I’d like to bury my head in those!’ Well, not really. The mystery is solved in the second photo.
Glassdrummond Households
For some time we have concentrated on the Crossmaglen area. Before we leave, we would like to list family names common historically in this area using the below listed sources – all, of course in their time, designed to extract maximum amounts from the locals for the planter and the English in exile. For us, of course, they are an invaluable source of local and family history research!
O’Fiach and Blanket Men
I recently read one of Brian Moore’s last books, Lies of Silence, the title referring to Westminster’s silence on the injustices perpetrated on the Catholic minority in the Northern statelet where Moore was reared (before he emigrated to North America).
Midsummer Music
I promised to give you plenty of advance notice of Newry Chamber Music’s midsummer event at Lislea Community Centre (Directions ? Through Camlough, round the Lake, up Sturgan Brae and 3 km on).