The involuntary emigration of tens of thousands of our fittest, best-educated, most qualified and most enterprising of our youth, has sadly resumed. Perhaps we ought to reflect on that of an earlier generation. Joe McCaigue and Gerry Montague wrote here recently on Guestbook, reminiscing on the residents of Water Street in days gone by. They might be interested in this Electoral List dating from 1946. Dear Agnes Our neighbours across the way are the most insufferable snobs who have irked just about everybody in the neighbourhood. I hope this amuses you all! We are all descended from someone. Do any of you recognise any one from the following list of residents of Bell’s Row of 1917? Midnight Mass at St Catherine’s (Dominican) Church in Newry this year of 2010 will prove to be very special indeed. I offer to Journal this photo of five Newry friends – and myself – enjoying a pint in the Irish Bar in Bolton Lancs in the 1990s. The RMS Titanic was a British registered four funnelled ocean liner built for the transatlantic passenger and mail service between Southampton and New York. Constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, the Titanic was on her maiden voyage, the largest vessel afloat. I know that a great many of you are as fascinated as I am with the Universe beyond this tiny speck of it we occupy. Have a look at this supurb video clip! I’m giving you fair warning! The Christmas Quigley Concert is a sell-out every year, and with good reason. So book now at Sean Hollywood Arts Centre (30313180) or direct from Newry Chamber Music (3030830482). There has always been a unique relationship between Ireland and France. For centuries Irishmen served the Fleur-de-Lys by the sword and in so doing sought to serve the shamrock. Irishman Brendan Cassidy served France … Though a contemporary and a fellow student at Trinity with John Mitchel, and later defender in court of Young Irelander, poet Richard Williams, it is not thought that Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 Mar 1810-9 August 1886) belonged to that august group. On a recent trip home Austin Golding supplied Journal with a number of old photos. The one below caught my fancy! There could scarcely have been a more inauspicious time for a rising than the autumn of 1848 (when the people were reduced to abject misery after four years of starvation): … John Martin of Loughorne (Donaghmore, four miles from Newry) followed his friend John Mitchel to Dublin, supported him by contributing articles to his papers and so Martin’s political career commenced. Emigration 1950s and 2011
Water Street Electors 1946
Eve ‘n Agnes
Sing a Christmas Song
I suggest : Gloria in excelsis: Santa: Jingle Bell Rock: We wish you Merry Christmas … etc.Bell’s Row 1917
Rebekah Coffey at Midnight Mass
The craic in Bolton
The Loss of the Titanic
The Known Universe
Quigley Christmas Concert
Brendan Cassidy: Teacher and Friend
Young Ireland: afterthought
Lovely Welrex Ladies
1848 Rebellion
John Martin: The Irish Felon
