Newry News and Irish Fun
The area of administration was constituted by taking a large market town as a nucleus and attaching to it the surrounding rural district with an approximate radius of ten miles. Since such had been the rationale behind the establishment of market towns here following the Plantation, it resulted in a much more stable and homogonous …
6. Fun of the Fair How bright the light is near the sea! We look down upon the fishing boats lying askew on the shining mud. Above these, the drunken tangle of wayward masts, around which graceful gulls glide, tirelessly wheeling, their hungry eyes questing, forever complaining as if they felt perpetually victimized. A cargo …
Loyalism has its roots in the confiscation, followed by the plantation of Irish land by the English rulers from Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century to William of Orange at the end of the 17th century.
We have just learned with regret of the death of Pat Ruddy. Margaret McGuigan of John Martin Gardens is also recently deceased.
Today’s Patrick/Dominic Streets and Francis Street were formerly known as Queen Street and King Street respectively. A great many families lived in this poor town {Ballybot} and the official lists of residents of 1917 disguises the fact that many more families than those named shared these homes. However here are the Reporter lists of Queen Street residents …
Newry’s first Railway Station was neither Edward Street nor Dublin Bridge, but was located at a red-brick building down the Warrenpoint Road in a place that later became the Abattoir.
In view of recent ‘political and security developments’ we sent our roving reporter to the Ardmore Fortress on the Downshire Road, in search of an interview with a real, live, local PSNI man (or woman).
Bradshaw’s Newry Directory (1820) continues ……… ‘.. The road through the town northwards formerly lay through Ballybot, Mill Street, Market Street and High Street and united with the Banbridge Road at Stream Street.
