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Gallipoli remembered

I am reliably informed that author and researcher Phillip Lecale – whose excellent book on the sinking of the ‘Leinster‘ is well worth reading – would like a list of the residents of Stream Street at the outbreak of the Great War. You will note, Phillip, the inclusion of one of the Mallaghan brothers of whom you wrote and who died in far-off Gallipoli.

The newspaper story waxed on about a famous magician.

My bulls**t deflector automatically engaged!

Pools of vomit cling to the frozen ground

A collage of fast food ferments in cheap beer:

‘buy one, get one free’. The tills ring loud and clear.

The writings of Joyce are often thought of as difficult to comprehend – and are thus lost to many.

What could be more simple and touching than this tribute to his father passed on, and the birth of his grandson?

We’ve had a few requests to ‘blow up’ that recent class photo. So here it is in two parts.

The trees are in their autumn beauty,

The woodland paths are dry,

Under the October twilight the water

Mirrors a still sky:

Upon the brimming water among the stones

Are nine-and-fifty swans.

It is unfortunate that there does not exist a proper comprehensive cross-referenced database of emigrants from this area in the nineteenth century. The following however, is one page

The class photo below arrived from an anonymous well-wisher. Every single boy – I hear – passed the 11+ from this Class of 1961-2. This might be the same group I uploaded two years ago. Is it? In any case, the first photo was certainly not in colour.

Go ahead and name them all for me, please!

Patrick Kavanagh of Monaghan paid tribute to the memory of his mother.

I do not think of you lying in the wet clay

Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see

You walking down a lane among the poplars

On your way to the station, or happily

This is an attempted analysis of one Famine time Census Return. Please read and comment!

Earlier (31 January) we gave you the residents of Monaghan Row in the 1901 Census: and of Monaghan Street some five years after that. Now let’s look at both streets at the outbreak of the Great War.

While I remain on this theme …. And please, I don’t want Jasper and Cloakie at each other’s throats, metaphorically, determined to separately identify .. ‘her faithless sons (who) betrayed her’ !!

We scarcely ever hear Moore‘s melodies any more – though there was a time when RTE played them ceaselessly. Most being reflective of old friends and of sad/happy/glorious times gone by, they certainly deserve an airing on Newry Journal.

There are around half a million Bretons who still speak their native language so the efforts of the international Committee for the Defence of the Breton Language have succeeded to an even greater degree than their Irish models in preventing their native tongue from dying out.

In common with other parts of Brittany, the south is big on Celtic festivals. That year, the city of Lorient claimed that its Inter-Celtique Festival rivalled Edinburgh in terms of the numbers of events and spectators. Ouest France each day devoted page after page to details of the various offerings in Lorient, Vannes and a number of smaller towns.

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Gallipoli remembered

My rod got stuck!

Youthful Cheer

Ecce Puer

Class of 61:Enlarged & Named

Wild Swans at Coole

Emigrants of Great Hunger

McDermott’s Indomitables

In Memory of Mother

1851 Census Returns: Newry Barony

1914 Monaghan Row/Street

Let Erin Remember

Oft in the Stilly Night

Brittany concluded

Celtic Festival in Brittany