Pathetic courting couple
Dear Agnes
Don’t you agree with me that there is no more loathsome a sight than ….
Lislea Festival : Moll
My admiration for the people of Lislea knows no bounds. I attended the mid-week Dr
The other woman’s man!
Dear Agnes
My lady friend and I, we are of a certain age but the juices still flow and we have womanly needs and desires.
Corn Market Soldiers
The soldiers billeted in Haldanes and Stark’s Factory during the War were often drilled in the streets around Corn Market where I lived. We all thought it fun to watch them.
Smugglers & Criminals
A number of stories of ‘severe’ misconduct and ever more severe judicial retribution caught my eye in the pages of the Reporter from 16 May 1942, in the middle of the War.
Saucy affair of the bottle
I received the following communication recently and wanted to share it with you.
Not that Erica has a problem for Dear Agnes to solve. Indeed, lass, I believe you could teach me a thing or two!
Annamar School 1930s
I am greatly indebted to Mrs Norris and her husband, teachers of
Recently deceased .. and baptisms
We offer our sympathy to the recently bereaved in our parish; the relatives of ..
Pearl Cully, mother of our esteemed colleague John, Newry Man of the Year 2006 …
O’Hanlon: conflict with Church
After so long in positions of power, the O’Hanlons (and indeed with them, the O’Neills and Magennisses) were wont to forget the allegiance (spiritual at least) they owed to the Church and were frequently in conflict with it.
O’Hanlon raids The Pale
Already the English influence was confined mainly to a strip of territory centred on
Poyntzpass: Round squaring
There were four brothers in them days, Willie, Henry, Barney and Davey McSherry and they lived in Tullynacross. Henry and Barney worked at quarrying and did small road repairs. They used to go to Hugh Rafferty’s pub for a drink at dinner time.
Blond drops a bombshell
As a lorry driver stops for a red light, a pony-tailed blond in a bull-bar fronted SUV catches up. She climbs out and descends to road level, runs up to his lorry, and knocks on the window. The man lowers the window, and she says,