The Lonesome West
The Lonesome West is by contemporary playwright Martin McDonagh and is the third in the trilogy which also includes the much-featured Beauty Queen of Lenane and A Skull in
Brown’s Yard: 2
We have gone back to a warm day in June almost eighty years ago; in fact to be precise it is 29 June 1929. Our location is High Street, Newry, at a point about one hundred metres downhill from that corner where St. Clare’s Avenue would later be erected.
Brown’s Yard 1
Like any other town in this world Newry is constantly changing. Street names change, the layout of roads and streets alter, sometimes dr
Shoot the Crow at Lislea
I went to Lislea Dr
Gerry Davey stonemason
The late Gerry Davey was a stonemason supreme – an art that is lost in these days of mechanical devices.
By the Bog of Cats
Extremely scathing it may be, but ‘honest’ it surely is. Michael McNamee’s critique of the Ferns Dramatic Society (Wexford) interpretation of Marina Carr’s “By the Bog of Cats”.
Lislea Drama : ‘Bog’ and ‘Crow’
Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr’s lyrical ‘By the Bog of Cats’ is a timeless play which tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land.
McShanes/Turleys in 1950s
The photograph below was contributed. It depicts a few of the earliest families in the Meadow of the 1950s.
Brown’s Yard
A few weeks ago I had cause to scan a number of old family documents and pictures. To enable me to perform this operation I first had to remove some items from their frames.
Calvary, Omeath
Peter (Rusty) Mallon has spent his adult life as a man on a mission. It is no exaggeration to say that he practically single-handed launched and had funded, over the past three decades the Irish-speaking schools in Newry.
Eva Clarke
The following article appeared recently in a free publication and I thought it deserved a larger audience …..
Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke spoke recently to the students of
Bridge Street Electors 1950
There will be many names familiar to you among this list. Foremost I note the family (O’Rorke) of our dear friend Clodagh Welsh and of the family she married into. Turlough O’Donnell also figues prominently. The Loys were relations of ours. Who else do you know?
Imeall Geal : TV show in Newry
Do you want to be on television? Yes? Are you under 25 years of age? Are you free from Sunday lunchtime to go to the Arts Centre? Here’s your chance! Free tickets!!
