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Changing Schools

If our garment-mak

If our garment-making at St Joseph‘s Primary School fell somewhat short of Dior standards, it is also true that our cookery could scarcely be termed ‘cordon bleu’.

One day a week, armed with ‘ingredients’ brought from home, we trooped over to the cookery room that was presided over by Sister Immaculata.

We’re still awaiting the other names in my first photo of Abbey Boys of 1965.

Date for All-Ireland Finals

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.

Drama Festival Result

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 26^th Lislea Drama Festival will run from Saturday 24^th February to Sunday 11^th March, with eight productions, all of them staged on weekend evenings (curtain up: 8.30, except final night 7.30): with the exception of one on Wednesday 28^th February which sees the staging of Kilrush Drama Group’s Antigone by Jean Anouilh. I feature it first for this is one I will not miss!!

To the people who lived in the Linenhall Square area of old, the…

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 Newry Canal the town thrived and expanded. The Act of Union of course brought closer ties with the larger island and the reform of some political and administrative affairs.