I spotted this photo and the story that accompanied it, in the paper this week and my sore old heart gave a little skip for joy! Most of our place names derive from the original Gaelic and so it is of Annalong – Ath na Long or the ford of the ships. We must remember that before every river and stream … Before Hughie’s wake could begin, Mum sat in the room fingering her rosary, just waiting. How often had she waited for the men in her life to come home? Consumed in herself as she remembered the past, she remained barely conscious of what was going on around her. Denis Caulfield Brady J.P. D. L. contested the British General Election of 1835 (about the time of the Repeal of the Corn Laws) on behalf of the Liberals, opposing Sir Thomas Staples K.C. Fred Trimmer, my brother-in-law and some of my sisters met me at the airport in north It was one of our worse ever train disasters, and all the more keenly felt because the victims were schoolchildren on a special outing. One pleasant Sunday morning in June my wife Mary – then teaching at Etobicoke, outside of Toronto – and I decided to drive to Oshawa to visit a friend with whom I had worked at the sawmill in Vancouver. With this final quoted sonnet, John Hewitt reflects on the nurse of old as ‘The One I Loved.’ We do not usually respond to requests seeking help in Family History searches. We cannot -for if we did, we could do nothing else. For example, it took your editor five years of constant (part-time) work to complete his own! Magennis Coronation Stone
Perhaps it was because the Magennis chiefs of Iveagh were more politic (or more accommodating, subservient, cowardly, treasonable, choose your own descriptive term, according to your personal view of history) that their ancient Coronation Stone up the Bridal Loanan in Warrenpoint was permitted to survive intact!
My Girls, still together!
Annalong explained
Hughie comes home
Dennis Brady
Home for Hughie’s funeral
Railway Tragedy
Death in the Family
One I Loved
Needham St 1907/09
