Newry Drama Festival: Newpoint
This year for the Newry Drama Festival, instead of offering critiques on the performances, I am inviting others to do so, while I merely reflect in advance on the storyline of each play.
The home team Newpoint …
Army Lists P-Q
As we pointed out before, these lists – though long- are not comprehensive, as my mate’s father Terence Quinn, who enlisted in the Royal Irish Fusiliers (war cry – Fog a Bella! ) during this period is not included.
Carthaginians
The Lislea Drama Festival will close on Saturday evening with Frank MacGuinness’s Carthaginians.
“Last Conquest” ?
Some short time ago we concluded our account of the sixteenth century history of Newry and of the Bagenals’ role in it in particular. Before we enter the fateful seventeenth century, we should perhaps reflect again on the results of ‘The Last Conquest of Ireland’ in the words of our own John Mitchel.
Army Lists 1915: N-O
We have been offered the personal history of one of the Great War recruits, which we will serialise shortly. Meanwhile here are the N and O recruits of that fateful year.
Lislea: A Quiet Moment
My friend and colleague Michael McNamee was kind enough to supply the following review of Sunday night’s performance by Ardagh Drama Group of Limerick.
Lislea Drama : A Skull in Connemara
This Martin McDonagh play – a comedy with sinister undertones – was well performed by Kilrush, Wexford who scored highly last year with another McDonagh, The Cripple of Innisman.
Mc : Army/Navy Lists 1915
Naturally the longest of our lists is the Mc / Mac people : I’m confident many of you have relatives listed here! Those recruits starred have stories told about them on this site (or will shortly!).
The photo below is of your editor’s relative and namesake John Wallace McCullagh from Australia who fell in 1916 in World War I aged just 24 years.
Brian Hayes RIP
With deep sadness but also with many fond memories, I record the passing of a great childhood companion Brian Hayes, formerly of Killeavey Road.
War Recruits : M
Of course there are plenty whose surnames began with M who enlisted in the Armed Forces in the first six months of the Great War. And we have here the only female volunteer, a Miss Mears from Bridge Street. Here is the list.
World War One Recruits: L
These are men whose surname began with “L” and who volunteered for military service in the first months of the Great War.
Calvary, Omeath 1909-2009
Peter Mallon and his Committee, Friends of Calvary have been working quietly behind the scenes to renovate, resurface, upgrade and repaint the Stations’ images and wording at this famous landmark.
Lislea Drama Festival 2009
With the first signs of Spring come the amateur drama festivals and below is reproduced that for the beautiful village of Lislea in South Armagh.
Great War Recruits: K
We continue our lists of those 835 men (and one woman) from Newry who volunteered for military service in the first 6 months of the Great War.
European War 1915: H-J
Full normal service has not yet resumed on Journal because I am still missing many of the drivers and programs that service the site. However as promised, I continue the WWI Recruits lists.