Kathleen Barrington, adjudicator at Lislea Drama Festival had lavish words of praise for various aspects of the home team’s performance last evening. The following questions and answers were extracted from a recent GCE examination … I went back to my position on Henry Street. I was first in the firing line from Nelson’s Column, a position which was dangerous also from Amien Street Station and Earl Street. Throughout his long association with Journal, with your editor and with the other eejits of this site, never once did Tony Carroll ever complain about the harsh lot he was dealt in recent years, the trials he had to endure since his dear wife Ann was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease and the enormous pain he suffered as his life’s love degenerated physically before his eyes. We will be in Lislea on Saturday and Sunday nights for the opening of their 30th Anniversary Lislea Drama Festival. My but doesn’t time fly by? The Crown Bar is gone (now it’s McSwiggans and is run by Andrew Connolly, George’s son) and, sadly, so too are some of the Darts stars of yesteryear, pictured here. 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. Bagenal’s Castle, having loomed large in the history of Ulster during the 16th century Elizabethan wars, again featured in the 17th century and for all the wrong reasons. The area near the castle was the scene of a massacre of the Irish in the aftermath of the great rebellion of 1641. You have to give great credit to the Quigley family for their ongoing efforts to present to the great Newry public the best of music in as varied a selection of settings as feasible and across all communities. The photograph below includes our correspondent William James McCutcheon and a number of local enthusiasts on a walk to find and explore the famous Lissummon Tunnel. At daybreak we were brought to the interior of the GPO to prepare for a siege. We erected a barricade of coal on the ground floor. The coal was carried, by relays of men, in Post Office sacks from the yard outside. This barricade was in case of attack. Tom Clarke introduced me to Harry O’Hanaghan who was in charge of rifles and munitions. He gave me a Lee Enfield rifle and ammunition. GPO Sackville Street Easter Wednesday 1916: ‘There were barricades with armed Volunteers at the entrance. Lislea is a beautiful townland just outside of Camlough in South Armagh that has spawned one of the most talented and successful amateur Drama teams in the whole of Ireland. I have finally completed Bill Bryson’s At Home, another of my Christmas present books. 500 pages packed tight with fascinating detail of personal and family life through the ages, it is a ‘must-read’. Review: On the Waterfront: Lislea
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Q. Name the four seasons ?11 year old dispatch bearer
Ann Carroll: In Loving Memory
Lislea Drama Festival begins
Darts at the Crown Bar
Loyalism in Fews from 17th century
Newry Massacres 1641-2
Quigley February Concert
Bessbrook Heritage Group
Coal Barricade: GPO 1916
GPO Easter 1916: under fire
Thomas Clarke in GPO 1916
Lislea’s 30th Anniversary
Bill Bryson: At Home