Robert (Bobby) McGladdery was on a pub crawl with his friend William Copeland that fateful evening of Pearl Gamble’s death.
In fact they had spent most of the day together drinking, after first meeting in
McGladdery on pub crawl ..
History
Slaughter in Ballyholland
One morning in 1797 the Ancient Britons [a Welsh Regiment of the English Army ] accompanied by Becker’s Yeomanry, rode out from Newry through Corrags until they came to a loanan which, over a hill, led to the farm of a widow woman, one Mrs Ryan.
Rankin Memoirs: 4
Early in 1915 I went to work in Liverpool as trade was very poor in Newry. I returned to Ireland before conscription came into force.
Bronze Age/Neolithic homes
It is exactly two years since we posted results of the archaeological finds in the Loughbrickland area, unearthed at the construction of the new dual carriageway …
Death of Shane O’Neill
We wish to demonstrate by this present series of historical articles on the mid-sixteenth century and the role of Shane O’Neill in particular, that Nicholas Bagenal – the ‘hero’ of ‘Bagenal’s Caisle
Mr Justice Dowdall and Thomas Stukeley were sent by the English Government to Shane O’Neill for the purpose of conferring with him but they met with little success.
In contempt the proud O’Neill stated that he never made peace with the Queen except at her own seeking and he arrogantly boasted that he would keep from O’Donnell his country (Donegal) and Newry from Bagenal and Dundrum from Kildare.
Even the English Deputy acknowledged O’Neill’s strong position: he was, he said, ‘the only strong and rich man in
In Newry Nicholas Bagenal despaired completely and in March 1567 he made a bargain with the aforementioned Thomas Stukeley to sell to him all his lands in
Forced emigration
The disgraceful extended incarceration of four Mayo farmers for protesting the danger to their lives and families from Esso’s high-pressure gas-lines running contiguous to their homes, brought to mind the similar treatment of their forebears a century and a half ago from occupation landlords.
1641-1956 Newry Events
1641 Sir Con Magennis briefly took Newry for the Irish in the Rebellion. It was shortly retaken by Lord Conway. In the following years it changed hands intermittently.
Ballymascanlon
The only remaining
Patrick Rankin
Patrick Rankin was the only Newry man to take part in the 1916 Rising in Dublin. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
The local drive to reorganise came from Newry, where the Centre (the man charged with organising and coordinating between groups and individuals) for the County was Robert Kelly of the town. Other County Down members in Newry then included George Cahill, Frank Patterson, James Morgan and Edward McCann. Henry Murphy of Castlewellan was also in the IRB. Newry man John Southwell was the Centre for Armagh. Southwell from Dominic Street joined the IRB in 1910 and was to become the Secretary of the Ulster Council and one of the principal organisers in Ulster. He played a leading role in establishing the Irish Volunteers in the Newry area. Under the initiative of Bulmer Hobson and Dublin republican, the Ớ Raghalliagh the Irish Volunteers were formed in 1913 with Eoin Mac N