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What Was the Old Name For Ireland?
The history of the country’s name is long and drawn out. For starters,…
The Cruellest Snip
I confess to scepticism over the need for these Assertiveness Courses.
[I assume you heard of the two nuns leaving the college? One turned to the other and remarked, ‘Mother Superior, aren’t these Self Assertion Classes just f***ing great?’].
Sharing with the Neighbours
The most heart-warming aspect of life then was the willingness to share. Without a second thought those who suddenly found themselves with a little roughness would send it around neighbours’ doors for sharing out.
Bagenal Dynasty II
It was in the reign of Henry VIII, the most famous of English Kings that Nicholas Bagenal fled to
Steel Erecting
‘So, after the War and your stint in the Army, what did you work at?’ I asked Dickie Rodgers.
‘I became a steel-erector.
Remember Bigus Dickus?
Father Foster was compiling a modern Latin Dictionary.
‘It may be defunct as a spoken language, but it’s still the official language of the Catholic Church,’ the good cleric asserted.
‘There are hundreds of modern terms that have no equivalent in Latin so I have compiled the ‘Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis’.
Ballinlare Gardens
Luminary of the Arts in Newry, the Music & Orchestral Society and Newpoint Players in particular, Sean Murtagh is one of the earliest residents of Ballinlare Gardens and, with his wife Marie, is thankfully still living there. He afforded us the benefit of his early recollections.
Gypsy, gypsy,living in a tent
I’ll bet you can put a tune to each of those skipping and street rhymes! I know I can. Many had multiple variations; my memory’s not so good that I can recall them all.
Vote Wyatt, She won’t be quiet!
A topical issue right now, elections, and there are many lessons for our legislators, administrators and indeed candidates from the story of Dorothy Wyatt, Councillor in St John’s, Newfoundland.
Halls of Narrow Water
As already recounted here, the original Castle at Narrow Water was probably a small item, built by the first Norman knight to make it into these parts c. 1212, one Hugh de Lacey.
Father Luke Donnellan
In the early part of the last century there was a prominent priest in