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Linenhall Square: Beginning

June 9, 2020December 3, 2003 by John McCullagh

As we have already for other estates, we will shortly list the tenants of Linen Hall Square from another age. Meanwhile we reproduce here a short article that originally appeared two generations ago, extolling the new working class residences.

Workhouse in Living Memory 2

June 9, 2020December 1, 2003 by John McCullagh

Nancy remembers only two school-going children, both boys, in her time and that towards the end. The wardmaster took the able-bodied to fields between the Workhouse and the Paupers’ Graveyard to cultivate the plots of potatoes and vegetables. As one photograph included here shows, there were cultivated plots also between the Reception Area and the Hospital Road.

There was also a piggery. The intention was as far as possible to be self-sufficient in food.

Workhouse 9

June 9, 2020November 30, 2003 by John McCullagh

There were factors that featured on a national and wider scale, such as temporary agricultural recessions, government policies and the shift from cultivation to pasture.

The rising and falling trends of Workhouse admissions over Ireland can be traced to a combination of all of these.

Workhouse in living Memory

June 9, 2020November 30, 2003 by John McCullagh

Notes compiled mainly from conversations (1990) between the author John McCullagh and Mrs Nancy Ferrier, former employee of Newry Workhouse.

Charter of Newry: The Context

June 9, 2020November 25, 2003 by John McCullagh

The town of Newry, we are told, was established in 1144 when Cistercian monks set up a monastery here. Not so.

Some thirteen years later their position, wealth, power and influence were enhanced when the high king of Ireland, Murtagh McLoughlin, granted a Charter and bestowed lands on them, asking other temporal rulers to do likewise. It was not as simple as that.

The context needs to be examined.

Castle Street Residents Then

June 9, 2020November 18, 2003 by John McCullagh

Newry Streets of Yesteryear

1913 Castle Street

Isaac Corry betrays Ireland

June 9, 2020November 11, 2003 by John McCullagh

Benedict Arnold is infamous in American history as that country’s most renowned traitor. Unfortunately Newry is better remembered for our home-grown traitors than for our several heroes. This article focuses on two of the more influential traitors. It is the present author’s opinion that their betrayal is comparable with that of Arnold’s.