Barracks’ Curfew 2
To understand how the youths of
She leaned over!
Dear Agnes
I need your advice on a very delicate subject.
Behind my husband’s back I have been seeing a man …..
Curfew in Linenhall Square
August 12th of this year was the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of a curfew in the Newry area. The then Stormont government introduced the curfew as a measure to combat the IRA’s border campaign of 1956-1962.
400th anniversary of Flight/Earls
It is fitting that in the 400th anniversary year of the Flight of the Earls, Newry’s own Dr John McCavitt should launch an illustrated History of the event and times. John, originally of Derrybeg Estate …
Bishop Garvey of Dromore
Encased in the wall that abuts
“Buried alive” : In the Coffin
Now this was bad. I knew that I had no chance of raising the lid, as he was the heavier of the two of us. Besides if he turned the screws home, that was it for me!
The Coffin
During the Sixties we had a range of local businesses with a dual aspect to them; like, a grocery shop and a pub; or maybe, a hardware shop with petrol pumps outside on the pavement.
Meadow of 1970s .. concluded
The summers would be very hot then and I loved the summer schemes in St Patrick’s school where we spent many a day playing table tennis with a man called Seamey Crawley who would be supervising.
The Meadow Shops …
I remember once during the summer my father hired a sky blue Volkswagen Beetle out for a few days from
Meadow Memories of 1970s
The happiest days of my life (and the best foundation stone of any child’s life) were spent in the Meadow, where I was born in 1967 :
Mad Old Men
Yeats had specific people in his own life in mind when he wrote the following poem. Students of the man, and of his life and times have little difficulty in putting names to the persons alluded to.
Newry’s Labour Leaders
Dickie Rodgers has suffered a few strokes recently and this is on top of a serious illness he has been fighting for more than a decade. But Dickie is nothing if not a fighter and even in his eighties he is a lively conversationalist.