Newry News and Irish Fun
The tune of ‘The Bard of Armagh’ has often been borrowed for country and pop songs – “The Streets of Laredo”, ‘Only the Heartaches’ , Dominic Behan’s “The Patriot Game” and an antiwar song of Bob Dylan’s “With God on our Side”, just for example. These are the words of the original (?) ……….
I learned from my mother in The Meadow, how to bake homemade bread. It was of necessity. My father, the only wage-earner was recently deceased. There were fifteen mouths to feed.
In the days of our grandparents, the woman stayed at home while the man went out to work – if he was lucky enough to be in work. Even if he had his own farm, he would seek seasonal work to supplement his income. This might entail flax-pulling or potato picking on another man’s farm.
Sarah Boyle was born at High Street, Keady, the daughter of Tommy Boyle and Margaret Greene, in October 1900.
It’s hard to understand the ways of a woman and Bridget, wife of Patrick Molloy from remotest Mayo was no exception.
It was back in the oul’ days – about eighty or ninety years ago – and there was this chap and he needed a woman. He was about forty he’s self and a little bit past it …
Fr Colum Wright this morning in his sermon, with a congregation ranging in age from four to eighty plus years, recounted how he had just returned from visiting Santa in Daisy Hill Hospital. Really? No, really? Was he ill?
It was all the children ‘nyamming’ that put him there, he said, and it wasn’t at all certain that he’d recover soon enough to do his essential rounds this year.
Probably based on actual events, the Ulster Cycle of tales constitutes the oldest corpus of secular literature in all of western Europe. It is a cause of great local pride that we of Iubhair Cinn Tragha …
