Again as with most of the lockkeeper cottages along the canal there were always the usual hens running around. I remember – when I was a young lad of about thirteen – Patsy Crawley who owned the grocery shop in Canal Street, paid me two shillings to take his big Labrador dog for a walk. Few of our streets have remained substantially unaltered over the last century – but those featured below from the Newry Street Directory of 1906 are among them. The suit and the coat with the corduroy collar Designed to make you believe Their pressures in life are greater than yours Because they have a degree It is appropriate in November, the month of remembrance, that we print the photo below of Newry veterans of the War to end all Wars. What is erroneously referred to in English history as the Desmond Rebellions occurred in (first) 1569-1573 and (second) 1579-1583 in Munster. Our regular contributor Brian Fearon has his own volume of Poetry on sale, that might make an ideal Christmas present. It’s called “At the Kitchen Table: an Original Selection of Poetry, Lyrics and Rhyme”. Here’s another sample … Well it’s time to put the shirt on Press the trousers, clean the shoes Get the old fat wallet We’re going on the booze … It is with great sadness that I report the sudden death in his native Glencolumcille, Donegal of that beloved county’s most eminent fiddler. Turlough Luineach, the new O’Neill on Shane’s death, quickly submitted to the Queen and was bound to keep the peace with Bagenal and with O’Hanlon and Magennis. The houses about Drumbally were scattered – I doubt if there were more than a dozen in a radius of a mile – and there wasn’t much by way of entertainment available. What there was, was talk. The history of Ulster and indeed of Ireland may have been very different…Towpath: Snipe
Arthur St/Aileen Terrace 1906
The suit and the coat …
We will remember them
Desmond Rebellions
Warrenpoint Nite-Out
James Byrne RIP
Turlough Luineach O’Neill
Drumbally: Ceilidh House
Shane O’Neill’s continuing campaigns
