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There’s a musician in Glencolmcille who goes by the name of Sean Conn Johnny.

Grandad’s chair stood by the fireside: it was a high-backed armchair with sugan seat and cushion. When Grandad was in bed – often enough later, when he was unwell – Mother sat in it sewing or reading.

John Haugh – earliest memories

Like most people, I can remember little of those early days. But what I remember is important to me and rests deep in my soul.

There were other emigrant ships out of Newry during the Famine which encountered harsh conditions on the high seas.

Vinny Smith was born in Edinburgh but always maintained he came from Glasgow. He was a carpenter by trade and moved to England to look for work. There he met Patsy Durkin from Newry.

The principal late 16^th century English tactic to destroy the Gaelic clan system was known as ‘surrender and re-grant’. Under it Gaelic leaders would submit ..

The Environment and Heritage Service Survey in Castle Street in December 2000 concluded that of six ‘blocks’ examined, only one (what they refer to as Block 4) was of ‘interest’. This is what they said of it …

It was many years after the events outlined in the following ballad that the box of letters upon which the story is based, was found in an abandoned drawer. The tale was heart-rending:

The Molly Maguires originated in Ireland and were known to many Irish immigrants before leaving Ireland, where their semi-legendary organization was a vigilante group that had fought Irish landlords for tenant rights.

Considering the season of the year, the passage of the Hannah from Newry to Quebec up to the 27 April 1849 was as favourable as one could expect. But the season was most unsuited to such a sailing.

The plight of the poor has always proved a fruitful opportunity for unprincipled entrepreneurs to line their own pockets.

By the mid-nineteenth century records of Shipping Intelligence for British ports (including the Port of Newry) show dominance of imports from British North America –

We stated earlier that we would look again at the EHS’s report on McCann’s Bakery and specifically on the continuation of its ‘Historical Information’.

Overall the record of ships departing Newry for New York reveals a remarkably low level of mortality in transit (twenty-three in all). It is all the more notable therefore, that the sailing of the Sarah Parker in January 1850 should have had such tragic results, with the death of eleven infants aged one and under.

The Irish famine, it hardly needs emphasising, had an enormous impact on the course of Irish history. Its ramifications impinged greatly not only on the demography of the country but also on its socioeconomic and cultural development.

The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) is the Government body charged with the preservation of historic monuments and as part of a survey five and a half years ago produced an assessment of McCann’s Bakery.

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Sarah Parker: deaths

Emigrant Ships: ‘Brothers’

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