On the banks of the River Creggan overlooking the rolling green hills of
Creggan Church & Graveyard
History
Pope Benedict & Bishop John
As I read about Bishop John’s meeting with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, I was thinking of when our local pastor visited my own home a few weeks ago.
By Suvla’s Waves
Sam and Jack and Rupert Brooke
You might have died with Rupert Brooke,
but septicemia took him off
two days before the V-beach madness
The Foggy Dew
The most famous song about the 1916 rising, and probably the best one has connections with Newry and Mourne.
O’Neill Vault
For many years the exact position of the O’Neill Vault was a subject of speculation.
It was known that c. 1820 the Rev Rector Charles Atkinson decided to brick up the doorway of the Vault.
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.
All Souls Day
It’s that time of year again when we think of the Holy Souls who have departed and especially of those who were central to our own lives.
Magennis Coronation Stone
Perhaps it was because the Magennis chiefs of Iveagh were more politic (or more accommodating, subservient, cowardly, treasonable, choose your own descriptive term, according to your personal view of history) that their ancient Coronation Stone up the Bridal Loanan in Warrenpoint was permitted to survive intact!
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.