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Living History
Historical articles covering the last 60 years
Castle Street a century ago
Streets of Yesteryear
1913 Castle Street
7 James Kelly
9 Margaret Doherty
11 William McShane
13 Mary McAnulty
15 William McGreavey
17 Robert Curran
19 Henry Curran
21 Patrick Murphy
23 Annie McGrath
25 William Nolan
27 Patrick McCartney
29 James McDonnell
31 Margaret Rowentree
33 Michael McKevitt, Pub
37a Alice Boyle
39 Henry Lennon
51 Patrick Heaney
53 William O’Gorman
55 Brian Bannon
59 Rosaleen Hughes
61 Mary Rafferty
65 Kathleen Hanratty
67 Catherine Toman
69 Francis Price
71 Patrick Carroll
73 Patrick Smyth
18 Eugene McAteer, Grocer
20 Bernard McAteer
22 Hugh King
ARTHUR McCANN, VICTORIA BAKERY
34 P Campbell, Shoes
36 Henry Butterfield
38 Annie Patterson
40 James Patterson
48 Kathleen McGuigan
50 Bro John V Mullins
Adavoyle Ambush
The photo below is of the long-abandoned Adavoyle Railway Station, the one through which De Valera was ‘deported’ by the RUC that time he was arrested at the
Prison Notes
Newry Journal was delighted recently to have been offered a few reminiscences of veteran Republican Dan Moore from his early days of resistance to British Rule.
1908
It was almost a century ago. 1908 to be precise. Here are a few news headline snippets, month by month.
Hatless in Court
More weighty affairs at the Local assizes 50 years ago!
Judge Hanna at Newry Quarter Sessions on Monday again referred to lady witnesses …
Cullyhanna Outrage
My grandfather was present at the great Aeridheacht cultural festival in Cullyhanna on Sunday 6 June 1920. It was an occasion of local rejoicing and celebration and a welcome relief from the stresses of the fraught political situation in the country.
The Low Ground
A popular ‘photograph’ of Old Newry carries the image on women in 1828 washing clothes in the Mill Race which continued past the site in Trevor Hill into
Last Man to Hang
We conclude, with this item, our series on the murder of Pearl Gamble by Robert McGladdery on Saturday 28 January 1961. Today is the forty-sixth anniversary of that fateful night. Had this terrible fate not befallen her,