Newpoint Players have drawn opening night at the Dean Crowe Theatre in Athlone on 5 May, three weeks from Friday next! Those of us lucky enough to grow up in The Meadow of the 50s and 60s had a number of McCrums as pals – I remember with fondness the late Eamon, with whom we’d play football in the Big Green – then there were Terry and Liam who were of an age with us, class-mates and pals, and there is Martin (altar-boy in St Bridgets) and Finnoula. It is seldom that my critical review coincides so exactly with that of… Crossmaglen has been recorded on maps since c. 1609 but until the late eighteenth century it was but a small collection of houses. A generation later and it is described as follows in Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary… The 26th Lislea Dr 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. In the century following the opening of the It’s best, I presume, to keep two parrots together in the one large cage for company for each other. The widow woman had inherited the birds …… After the war things got very bad. There was no work and less money so eventually Tom Burns and I decided to go to Peace broke out in 1994 Then the semantic battles Began, highly explosive verbs And nouns were fired Without warning by all sides, Sending newspaper editors Diving to the floor. Another photo (sorry about the quality – I was promised better!) from our upside-down friend in the Antipodes!Date for All-Ireland Finals
Meadow: Derrybeg Drive
Drama Festival Result
Crossmaglen
Lilslea Drama Festival 2007
Cathedral in 20th Century
Town Boundary from 1839
Joey’s prayers answered
Jerretspass: concluded
Imperfect Peace?
Dan McCaul
The Black Pig’s Dyke
Ye know the dip in the road just outa Meigh on the way till Newry? The Flurry River passes under there. Well, the shrubbery on yer left on that hill is on a part of the Black Pig’s Dyke. Ye didn’y know that, did ye? I’ll tell you the story of how it came by its name.