Newry Journal – Page 79 – Newry News and Irish Fun

Queen Street

I do not recall when I typed up this list or where I sourced it. The result is I cannot remember of what year this is a list of the residents of Queen Street in Newry. Perhaps some reader will identify a name here and help us!

Sarah Boyle was born at High Street, Keady, the daughter of Tommy Boyle and Margaret Greene, in October 1900.

One day while he was at the track betting on the ponies and nearly losing his shirt, Mitch noticed a priest who stepped out onto the track and blessed the forehead of one of the horses lining up for the fourth race. Mitch was a Protestant but he knew the difference between religion and business.

Another in our occasional series of streets lists of generations gone by – this time Mary Street!

Sticky Fingers Festival

I just happened upon details for the Sticky Fingers Festival for children happening…

Owen Roe O’Neill was the son of Art O’Neill, a younger brother of the Great Hugh O’Neill, and he was a famous Irish leader of the seventeenth century.

The Armagh Crest incorporates

Arms azure, on a bend, embattled between in chief,

Primatial Cross and in base, a harp

Crest : an ancient Irish Crown gold

Motto : In concilio Consilium – In Council, we plan

Among the recently deceased, I learn from this week’s Parish Bulletin, are

The following journalist for the ‘Telegraph’ – writing about the height of the tourist season in Warrenpoint in 1864 – was clearly inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity!

We return to our feature of listing former residents of Newry. The following is a list of the residents of St Mary’s Street towards the close of the First World War.

Gabe Sheridan sent us more details of family history which we consider worth reproducing. Perhaps the new historical information of greatest interest is that some Bagenal descendants opted for the democratic Republicanism of the United Irishmen of the last decade of the eighteenth century! Indeed at least one was put to death for his stance.

The original Nicholas Bagenal was rabidly anti-Catholic (he lived through the [Protestant] Reformation and it was politically correct, and indeed personally advantageous to take such a stand) ….

I have no better excuse for reproducing the lyrics of this great song from one of the best and most successful albums of our time, than that I love it and it’s currently running through my head. Do you agree it was one of the all-time greats?