This is an anonymous letter to the Manager of the Newry and Warrenpoint Railway Company, published in the Newry Telegraph, 1st August 1864.
Thongs for Bedouins
1800-1900
Gross Isle, Canada
It is comforting to your editor to know that he is not labouring alone to remember the destitute and dispossessed Irish of the nineteenth century who were driven from their homes across a cruel sea.
The following article extracted from a recent edition of a Canadian newpaper indicates that O’Neill Avenue man, Patrick White continues to highlight this and other Irish issues in North America.
Bradshaw 1820: new roads
Bradshaw’s Newry Directory (1820) continues ………
‘.. The road through the town northwards formerly lay through Ballybot, Mill Street, Market Street and High Street and united with the Banbridge Road at Stream Street.
Bradshaw’s Directory 1
One of the interesting general histories of Newry past is that of Thomas Bradshaw, contained in Bradshaw’s General Directory of Newry (and other towns) of 1820. We quote sparingly from it ….
Russell defends Parnell
It was a famous Newry man, Charles Russell who exposed in court the British-Government inspired calumny against the great Irish Nationalist leader of the late nineteenth century Charles Stuart Parnell.
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.
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.
Newry Ropeworks
I came across the following extract lately on another website and I reflected on the phrase in bold type. As a very young boy I had looked up ‘Newry’ in an encyclopedia at home, and learned that one of its chief manufactories was a ropeworks!
Seraphine, 1850
There were other emigrant ships out of Newry during the Famine which encountered harsh conditions on the high seas.