Captain Crozier: Last Man Standing [Collins Press,
Captain Francis Crozier
History
St Mary’s Republican Plot
The recently erected steel tribute panel to fallen comrades on the Republican Plot in St Mary’s Cemetery pays homage to the three men who died during and after the Egyptian Arch ambush of Monday 13 December 1920.
Ireland sold at Derramore?
Certainly Castlereagh and Isaac Corry were co-conspirators in the betrayal of
Castlereagh prospered on the larger stage of British politics.
Emigrants of Great Hunger
It is unfortunate that there does not exist a proper comprehensive cross-referenced database of emigrants from this area in the nineteenth century. The following however, is one page
1851 Census Returns: Newry Barony
This is an attempted analysis of one Famine time Census Return. Please read and comment!
Sheep and Lambs
Writing on Good Friday, I consider it appropriate to continue on the religious and sacrificial theme. The following are two of my favourites by Irish writers:
Calvary
Christians everywhere, from midnight if not before, will reflect on the Sacrifice of the Cross. The words of the Irish poet, Cecil Frances Alexander, on
Thomas Steers, Canal Engineer
Any western social and economic history of recent times will focus centrally on the Industrial Revolution (usually dated from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries) – which paved the way for our modern state of development. Industry and production shifted from cottages to factories, from country to cities, and serviced not just the home but many foreign markets as well.
The Pale and Newry
In our last historical piece, we mentioned The Pale. A little further explanation is necessary.
The Norman sweep through east and north
in the thirteenth century resulted in effective political and military domination, largely unchallenged.