Newry News and Irish Fun
‘Warrenpoint last Sunday was very lively – quite a number of holiday folk being present not only from the surrounding districts but from Belfast, Portadown, Armagh, Dublin, Dundalk and Cookstown, special trains having been run from all those places which were availed of by a great many sight-seers.
The early history of
As a result of running with Redmond O’Hanlon (so to speak!) I received various requests to write further on the O’Hanlon pedigee. Since I have several friends of that name – are you still with us, Jenny, Martina, Gerry, Bernard, Paddy, Sean and Donal, Cathy Lee Rathbun etc? – I decided to accept the challenge.
‘An extraordinary scene was witnessed on the platform of the Newry (
The launch of Marjorie Harshaw Robb’s book reminded me that I had not yet offered a critique of the historical significance of The Harshaw Diaries. I do so now.
The Harshaw Diaries (1830s – 1860s) offer a small insight into life in Donaghmore ..
Redmond O’Hanlon had an ‘active service’ life of a mere seven years, but in that time he acquired a fearsome reputation.
In brief then, Redmond O’Hanlon’s short and violent life followed what may be viewed almost as a preordained pattern.
Oral tradition in South Armagh holds fast to the folk memory of the seventeenth century local character,
There were many local names still familiar today in the lists compiled by Father Ryan of the householders in the townlands in his parish during the Great Hunger.