More nicknames to decipher? OK. Mousey, Bum, Soapy and Crow. Work it out! Robert Stewart was grandfather to Robby Martin of Flashpoint! We like occasionally to update you with births and deaths from the Parish Bulletin: What was called for was an appropriately long bolt of precisely the correct diameter to fit through both burned-out holes – that in the front axle and directly above in the buggy board – and with sufficient numbers and sizes of nuts and washers to do the job-in-hand. These ships of which we have recently written were all coasters. The Coasters of John Hewitt are of a different ilk! Jem Murphy, local historian, was one of the men responsible for the discovery of the O’Neill Vault. Jem was born in Carnally in 1916. As I read about Bishop John’s meeting with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, I was thinking of when our local pastor visited my own home a few weeks ago. I remembered Hughie as a mischevious, adorable curly-haired boy of six or so, in summer dressed in baggy overalls that were four inches too short and in well-worn, laceless, hand-me-down mud-spattered shoes. Peader O’ Doirnin was for a time a schoolteacher in the Lough Ross area of When last I extensively advertised a coming event in the Cathedral – Newpoint’s performance of T S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral – I found on the night that everyone had arrived before me, though I was there a full half-hour before commencement. I had to stand at the back, All our contests and competitions were centred on the use of the ball-bearing buggy. We had no interest in tortoise v hare events – especially since we were the tortoises! This reproduction does little to flatter my school-mates and the Editor would be grateful for a proper black & white print. The second half – which includes myself – will follow shortly. Sam and Jack and Rupert Brooke You might have died with Rupert Brooke, but septicemia took him off two days before the V-beach madness Even today, The most famous song about the 1916 rising, and probably the best one has connections with Newry and Mourne.Linenhall Sq: 1935: 2
Recent Baptims/Deaths
Building your Buggy
The Coasters
Jem Murphy
Pope Benedict & Bishop John
Not like his beloved Ireland
O’Doirnin/MacMurphy
Mozart in Cathedral
Ball-bearing Races
Abbey Class of 1965
By Suvla’s Waves
Stream Street 1909
The Foggy Dew
