Peter Sloan also told of how his young sister used to weep at the cries of the geese that were being plucked alive on
Mickey the Pluck ..
Reminiscence
Have ye shod any geese lately?
The late Peter Sloan of Bavan, Omeath – a native Gaelic speaker – told many a yarn and most of them true.
Omeath long ago
Michael Boyle spent most of his working life with the Great Northern Railway, an employment that came to an end with the closing of the Goraghwood-Newry-Warrenpoint line in 1965, an event remembered with sadness by the great majority of us older people. This is his story.
Frank McCullagh BEM Coastguard
In an earlier article featuring Kilkeel Harbour and the Coastguard Station, I made passing reference to my esteemed uncle who served there with distinction for many years.
I received an email of thanks from his son and my cousin Michael, who is retired and lives now between Germany and Spain (he has, I believe, homes in both!). This is my response!
Born before 1986
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s probably shouldn’t have survived!
Lottie in Derrybeg
Lottie and Owen settled into married life in
Lottie McKeown
To leave the subject of
No matter which area of Newry she settled in, she was immediately to the forefront of community life there.
Street Games Revisited
What games did we play in yesteryear?
Well, it depended on ‘The Seasons’:
not those with which you are now familiar, but our own seasons;
you know, the ‘marley season’, the ‘caddy season’, etc.
The Cobweb
NOW I learn of all those great sing-song pubs of the recent past.
Our own was the St Catherine’s Club on Merchant’s Quay (see Alice McKay story) but there were a few others too. Notably Maurice Mulgrew’s Cobweb on Monaghan Street.