The Field: EXTRA
Need a break from Christmas shopping? Not getting out enough? Why not try “The Field” at the Town Hall this Sunday or Monday nights ?
The Presence of God …
Despite our collective anguish at the current Church crisis, we remember our individual spiritual lives: my contribution is this moving poem by Plunkett :
I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes …
Newry I Knew: Tom Wharton
I was born in July 1938 in a rented house which was situated in a place called the Blind Fields …
Bishop on Abuse
Statement of Bishop McAreavey
This weekend every single person in the country is struggling to come to terms with the Dublin Report that was published this week.
Mass Rock Found
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Catholics in Ireland were forbidden to openly practice their religion and had to resort to open-air ceremonies where guards could be posted to look out for approaching Redcoats. There was a bounty on priests and especially on Bishops. But the ordinary Catholic practitioner was also at risk.
Wrong One?
I checked each detail carefully : I had the ISBN number, the author’s name: the book title. Why did they not stock it?
Then I went outside and looked at the shop name above the door. There must be a clue there, I reasoned …
Abbey Seniors 1977
Class List 7L Abbey Grammar School, Newry 1976 – 1977 Austin, Liam Anthony Blair, Hugh…
Newry seized in 1641
The iniquitous Plantation consequent upon the defeat of Gaelic Ireland and the seizure of the lands of the Gaelic Chiefs (of many of those who remained as well as of those who fled with Hugh O’Neill) affected Newry and Mourne in a unique way.
Eejit’s Guide to Early Ireland : 1
It’s more than ten years since Michael Quinn staged his one-man parody show “Eejit’s Guide to Early Ireland” and still you’ll meet people who remember it fondly. It’s a stage show and doesn’t readily translate to the written word. Despite this, Michael has given us permission to reproduce here his copyright material.
Merchants Quay 1938
They were calmer, more relaxed times then. Only the shopowners – in this case, Long’s Grocery Store, O’Hagan’s Hardware, Mitchell’s General Wares – and the ‘gentry’ – perhaps the manager of the Tax Office in the foreground – owned cars.
Abbey Class : Oriel 2: 1971-72
Abbey Grammar School Year 1971 – 72 Form Oriel 2 Again NOT Oriel 2 71-72 (I…
