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Place Names of Newry and District

Newry City Library presents “Place Names of Newry and District” with speaker Dr…

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Home Rule 1885 – 1914: Prelude to Revolution

Newry City Library presents “Home Rule 1885 – 1914: Prelude to Revolution” by…

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Obit: Mrs Margaret McCracken …

“Ou sont les neiges d’antan?” (Where are the snows of yesteryear?) …. I…

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Peter Markey rescues two war-victim Jews ..

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Sergeant Peter Joseph Markey from Newry was part of the unsuccessful British parachute…

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Do You Remember?

Newry Library in association with NI Screen presents a nostalgic look at the…

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Life and Death of Cyril Wiltshire, Castle Street .. [1]

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Ed and Bria Herron, Newry teachers by profession and, long into their well-deserved…

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Results: 2012 Newry Drama Festival

The opinion of the Adjudicator seldom tallies with my own – and so…

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2012 Drama Festival closes …

To write a New Age English allegorical drama so radical as Jerusalem –…

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Eithne Bell for Best Actress?

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There was high praise indeed, and rightly so, last evening from our adjudicator…

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Newpoint: Beauty Queen of Leenane

I know you really will want to go to the Town Hall tonight…

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Welcome the Fiddler!

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So how do I spend my time in retirement, you ask?  Very pleasantly,…

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Noble Ploughman: .. end …

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Since man first turned the soil with his crude spade, revolutionary changes have…

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Weekend Breaks: Clarence

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How time flies!  Already we have seen one third of all the plays…

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The Good Earth

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Moving slowly over the crest of a gentle hill, man, horse and plough…

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Witches and Ghouls: Newry Drama Festival

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Tonight, Saturday it’s the turn of Waterford’s Ballyduff with the classic ‘The Crucible’…

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