Newry Journal
Community, History and Culture from Newry, Ireland
Previous to 1972, Irish pennies were large, mostly copper coins. In fact, the coin measured 1.215 inches (30.9 mm) in diameter and weighed 9.45… Read more…
After the war things got very bad. There was no work and less money so eventually Tom Burns and I decided… Read more…
The old Thames Trader truck was written off and I never set eyes on it again. Brian and I were… Read more…
Newry Journal has survived 4-5 times longer than the average web-site (and longer even than the 18th century local newspaper… Read more…
In the final decades of the eighteenth century the radical opposition in Ireland, inspired by both the American and the… Read more…
I came across the following extract lately on another website and I reflected on the phrase in bold type. As a… Read more…
