Runaways in love
To escape the dreaded arranged marriage, the young couple in love would run away together to the house of good friends – or the male’s relatives.
19th century arranged marriages
I was telling you about the Blackfoot, a sort of matchmaker of times gone by.
Newry Drama Festival [2]
I am delighted to report that Newpoint have ALREADY scored at least one FIRST (at time of uploading!) for Murder in the Cathedral, AND Lawrie Hodgett won best actor and Sean Treanor, Best Producer, at the Newtownstewart Festival.
‘You know where I got that?’
My late and very beautiful friend Sarah Hagan – who sadly parted this mortal coil just a few days ago – was my distant cousin. So distant, one would not normally mention it at all – except for my pride in being related to such a remarkable lady.
The Last Trip
There was one route reserved for the most careful drivers of the single-decker coaches of the East Thanet Bus Company.
That route was full of rural charm, with avenues lined with leafy inter-woven branches overhead and winding roads with delicate ancient hump-back bridges.
Red-Light Bus
About twenty minutes – and a new complement of passengers – later, Dave took off along another unorthodox route. I ducked upstairs to avoid the anxious queries I knew would be inevitable.
Newry Drama Festival Programme 1
Donal O’Hanlon, our reader and contributor, is just one of the many Newpoint stars who will feature in the Town Hall on Tuesday 28th March in Murder in the Cathedral, that powerful verse dr
Pre-Nursing Girls 1968/9
The
Mad Ferguson
Teaming up drivers with conductors was the task of some faceless mandarin in The Office – who revealed his decision by posting the following week’s schedule on the Depot’s Notice Board at exactly eight pm on Saturday evenings.
The Bus Starts
It was one of those large red double-decker buses we were all once so familiar with. Well, the English were! I’d never seen one in real life. I couldn’t believe the draught! The back was open where there was an under-stairs space for prams, and a chrome rod that supported the upstairs deck at the back corner.
Sayings in everyday use yet 1
..that’s in the hands of The Man Above ..
referring to anticipated weather for a great event, sporting occasion or the likes. Not to be said in the presence of a priest!!
Local sayings in Everyday Use [2]
Personal: ….. towards youth and the very young …
‘Who’re you looking at?
‘I’m looking at you
With your eyes so blue
And you’re nose turned up
Like a kangaroo!’
Mickey the Pluck ..
Peter Sloan also told of how his young sister used to weep at the cries of the geese that were being plucked alive on