Early in July 1916 some Volunteers from both North and South Camps were taken under escort to a nearby railway station. About 10.30 am some one hundred men were boarded, bound for London.
Living History
Historical articles covering the last 60 years
The Band Played …..
I was listening to Eric Bogle’s anti-war song, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, when I recalled the local story of the same ilk – indeed the same period.
Cathedral in 20th Century
But the most extensive structural extension to Newry Cathedral awaited the raising to the Dromore Bishopric of Henry O’Neill in the first decade of the twentieth century. He served as Bishop 1901-1905.
Seamus Mac Conamara
There is a plaque on the North Street Block nearest High Street celebrating the life of one Seamus Mac Conmara (McNamara) who was born near there (7 North Street) at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Seamus was first and foremost a surgeon. He graduated from Queens University Belfast in 1931. He wrote in Irish (one of the very few of the twentieth century so to do) a number of successful novels, notably ‘The Stranger’. He suffered from ill health and died in 1936 at the age of twenty seven years.
His father, a sergeant in the RIC, owned two businesses in North Street, a tobacconists and a draper’s shop. Seamus is the son of this James by his second wife Johanna (nee Lacey). There was also a daughter from this marriage who married into the Murtaghs of Kilmorey Street.
Market Street then
Streets of Yesteryear
1 Michael Turley
3 John McGivern
7 Edward Markey
9 Michael Warner
13 Vincent Murney
6 Joseph Manley
8 Rose O’Donnell
Market Street
3 Louis Spencer
5 Catherine Lundy
2 Edward Convery, Shoes
4 Margaret Hughes
6 Peter Hughes
8 Joseph Hughes
16 Edward Donnelly
18 Bridget Mallon
26 Anthony Fitzpatrick
28 Bernard O’Callaghan, Grocer
Chapel Entry
37 Mary Graham
39 Mary Gallagher
36 Thomas Donnelly
38 Josephine Morgan
20 James Patterson
24 James Patterson
24 Fred McEvoy
26 Elizabeth Mooney
34 Mary Morgan
36 Alex McKinley
48 Mary Fearon
44 Margaret Henry
46 Susan Connor
1 Patrick Fegan
3 Robert Fitzpatrick
5 Rose McKenna
7 Josephine O’Hanlon
2 Thomas McKevitt
6 Margaret Morgan
Monaghan Street 1901
RESIDENTS OF
– 1901
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Use Family Name family |
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1 Pub Yes Annie McConville 12 |
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2 Printing Office |
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3 Pub |
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4 Shop |
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5 Pub Yes John Savage 3 |
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6 Shop |
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7 Shop Yes James Gordon 7 |
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8 Rectifying Distillery |
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9 Customs Bonded Store |
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10 Private House Yes John Thompson 7 |
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11 Private House Yes James Mark 3 |
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12 Private House Yes Mary Magennis 6 |
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13 Pub Yes Joseph O’Kean 7 |
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14 Private House Yes Mary McKevit 7 |
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15 Shop Yes Agnes Gilow 3 |
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16 Private House Yes Catherine Egan 4 |
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17 Private House Yes William Bell 5 |
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18 Private House Yes Alex Mahood 6 |
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19 Manufactory |
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20 Private House Yes Charles Pollock 2 |
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Yes Margaret Donnelly 5 |
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21 Private House Yes Minnie Buchanan 2 |
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22 Shop Yes Peter Feehan 10 |
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23 Private house Yes William Lee 3 |
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24 Private House Yes Edward Crilly 3 |
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Yes Michael McCoy 2 |
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25 Private House Yes Thomas Gallogly 2 |
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26 Shop Yes William Barron 2 |
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27 Pub Yes Ino McKnight 6 |
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28 Private House Yes Wilfred Squire 4 |
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29 Private House Yes James McMahon 3 |
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30 Private House Yes Hugh McKay 4 |
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31 Private House Yes John Loughran 5 |
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32 Private House Yes Sam McCauley 8 |
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33 Private House Yes John Kavanagh 7 |
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34 Private House Yes Ino Treanor 6 |
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35 Private House Yes Hugh Flanagan 2 |
RESIDENTS OF
– 1901
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No. Use Family? Name family |
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36 Private House Yes Mary Farrell 4 |
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37 Private House Yes Owen Kelly 3 |
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38 Private House Yes Mary McCloskey 3 |
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39 Shop Yes Robert Robinson 4 |
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40 Private House Yes John Power 9 |
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41 Private House Yes Margaret Gorman 2 |
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42 Private House Yes Peter Campbell 5 |
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43 Private House Yes Anne O’Neill 4 |
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44 Private House Yes Michael McCoy 3 |
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45 Private House Unoccupied |
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46 Private House Yes Patrick Sharkey 4 |
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47 Private House Yes John Calderwell 1 |
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48 Private House Yes John Fields 6 |
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49 Private House Yes Patrick Hunter 10 |
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50 Private House Yes James Mulgrew 3 |
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51 Private House Yes Joseph Sinclair 5 |
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52 Private House Yes Essie Black 11 |
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53 Rectifying Distillery |
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54 Customs Bonding Store |
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55 Pub Yes Walter Savage 7 |
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56 Private House Yes Eliza Bell 4 |
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57 Private House Yes Mary O’Callaghan 5 |
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58 Shop |
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59 Shop |
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60 Shop |
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61 Pub Yes Michael McArdle 4 |
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62 Private House Yes Michael McCoy 5 |
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(No further records ..)
North Street 1913
Streets of Yesteryear
1913
Upper
4 John Bailie
5 R Shanaghan
7 Edward Doorley
8 Mary Gamble
9 J McNamara
11 Edward Mullen
11a J Fitzpatrick
12 P Fitzpatrick
13 T McManus
15 M A Martin
18 Richard Sloan
17 William Little
19 M McGuigan
21 Michael McParland
22 Owen O’Hanlon
24 M Hamill
25 B
26 Mary Rafferty
27 Fred H Gordon
27 Samuel Gordon
30 Maurice Boland
31 M A McKeown
32 Joseph Moore
34 Thomas Ruddy
39 Frank O’Hare
42 James McAnulty
43 A Rafferty
44 J Quinn
45 Stephen Boyle
46 William McAnulty
48 A McConville
50 J McKeown
54 John Treanor
56 William Collins
58 John Grey
North St Lower
2 William Rafferty
4 Susan McGurk
5 T P Ledlie & Co
7 Stewart Lockhart
8 Sarah Treanor
9 Margaret Abrahamson
10 Ellen Gartlan
12 Alex Donnelly
13 Mary Gamble
14 Mary Marron
15 W J Tweedie
16 Patrick McAlinden
17 Edward Tracey
19 Patrick McAleavey
21 M J Milligan
23 Bernard Kearney
27 Margaret McMahon
29 Francis Cunningham
31 Rose A McConville
33 David O’Neill
34 James Falloon
35 James McGroarty
36 William Baxter
38 Patrick McAlinden
39 James Marshall
40 Charles Brown
42 John Murphy
43 Patrick Grant
44 James Hollywood
North Street Merchants
Further to Malachy O’Grady’s remarks in Guestbook. Permit me to add these notes based on an address given a decade ago at a One Day Seminar held in The Abbey by Dromore Diocesan Historical Society.