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!
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!
Annalong explained
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 …
Hughie comes home
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.
Dennis Brady
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.
Home for Hughie’s funeral
Fred Trimmer, my brother-in-law and some of my sisters met me at the airport in north
Railway Tragedy
It was one of our worse ever train disasters, and all the more keenly felt because the victims were schoolchildren on a special outing.
Death in the Family
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.
One I Loved
With this final quoted sonnet, John Hewitt reflects on the nurse of old as ‘The One I Loved.’
Needham St 1907/09
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