Radiocarbon Report?
Why would Newry & Mourne Council – at the ratepayer’s expense – commission a survey, inquiry and report upon bones found at the old Monastery site and then not release the results to the ratepayer?
Workhouse Nurse
There is not in this Green Isle a
As the workhouse of Newry where Guardians do meet
The last rays of feeling and joy must depart
Ere the bloom of their counsel shall fade from my heart
Buggy Launch!
After all that work, it is little wonder that we favoured a great fanfare launch when – at long last – our new ball-bearing buggy was ready to be inflicted upon an unwary world!
Hippy and Cornerboy …
After the disaster with the boiled chicken, I learned quick and there were lots of good feeds in my house. Like I said, the younger fellows had to bring something to the house …..
Red Hot Poker here!
As intimated already, the two axles of your ball-bearing buggy had to be flat and not bowed. If they were bowed, the steering didn’t work properly. I remember a number like that, and the frantic and unsuccessful efforts of owners to plane the offending wood back to a level surface!
Gamble Murder: The grisly remains ..
Her younger daughter Eleanor accompanied Mrs Margaret Gamble and Bob McCullough down to the nearby cross-roads.
They found
Pearl Gamble missing ….
Charles Ashe was out walking his greyhounds as usual early on the morning of Saturday 28th January 1961 when he stumbled upon a single black shoe lying in the middle of the road a few hundred yards beyond Ellen Vale on the
Eastwood Vault
The small stone building that stands in the centre of the graveyard has often been speculated upon. It is however widely accepted now as the Eastwood Family Vault.
Faith Healer
Newpoint Dr
Creggan Church & Graveyard
On the banks of the River Creggan overlooking the rolling green hills of
Dad reaches out
My father too was heart-broken. This was the first time in my life I had seen him cry and I wanted to cry too, with him, and with mother, for Hughie, and for myself but the tears would not come. I walked away to be alone.
What are ball-bearings?
It has just occurred to me that you may not know just what a ‘ball-bearing’ is.
Well, you surely know what one tiny 5mm diameter steel ball bearing is!
Chicken a la Bang!
My name’s Tommy Morrow and I was telling you about my life after I ran away from home at a very early age. The little house I rented for 9d a week became a ceili house …
1962 Football Team
Pat Murtagh, a former classmate who is featured in this photograph, supplied a list of names for identification. He notes too that Tim Casey (Newsagents,