Newry Cathedral
Brother Mallon’s final report published here earlier listed buildings/edifices in Newry with dates upon them. We cautioned you then that the list was not exhaustive – and here’s another.
1888 is the date in granite upon our Cathedral …
Religious & Military Dates in Down: 1
Dates (mainly ‘religious’ but also political/military) in Down’s history
432 AD St Patrick’s (second) landing in Down
493 Patrick died at Saul and was buried at Downpatrick
Kilkeel Square
With two notable exceptions each day of my life until I was fourteen was spent in and around Kilkeel.
Father Coigly executed
According to the historian Brendan McEvoy Father Coigly was sworn to the United Men in May or June of 1796. This is the period when a merger took place between the Defenders and the United Irishmen.
Fr Coigly, United Irishman
Despite the extreme conservatism of the Catholic Church (the United Irishmen were roundly condemned by the great majority of the Catholic hierarchy) there were a number of like-minded priests – including Father McGinnis of Dromintine – with whom Father Coigly could empathise, radicals forged in the liberty-equality-fraternity atmosphere of revolutionary
1946 Slieve Gullion Road electors
By January 1950 the O’Hares had moved from
Deaths & Baptisms: Carol Service
Recently deceased of our parish include:
Michael Torley
Rifleman McAlister : reprise
On Tuesday 20th Nov, I received an e/mail from Martin Cunningham. He informed me that his father was a nephew of Bernard McAlister. I contacted Martin and arranged to meet him and his father on Wednesday 21st.
Archbishop Usher and time
In a modern age of advanced scientific knowledge it is easy, if facile to mock the efforts of previous scholars to date the age of the earth and the Creation. The most serious, complete, widely-accepted and longest-enduring of the latter efforts was ascribed to an early Protestant Archbishop of
The Truck [final episode]
The old Thames Trader truck was written off and I never set eyes on it again.
The Truck [penultimate]
Our first two calls at Keady went all right because the three boys riding, and drinking on the back of the truck were still in a state of sobriety and able to lend a hand.
Forkhill Parish 1837
Forkhill parish, 41/2 miles NNW of Dundalk, has currently 7063 inhabitants of which 152 are in town, writes Lewis in 1837.
The Truck [5]
Soon we were ready to continue on our way. But there was one problem; including me there was now six of us, too many to fit in the cab. The D Series Ford Custom Cab had a large passenger seat that was meant to seat two.
The Bard of Armagh
The tune of ‘The Bard of Armagh’ has often been borrowed for country and pop songs – “The Streets of Laredo”, ‘Only the Heartaches’ , Dominic Behan’s “The Patriot Game” and an antiwar song of Bob Dylan’s “With God on our Side”, just for example. These are the words of the original (?) ……….