Newry News and Irish Fun
Kathleen O’Hanlon 1914 – 2005 – Her Funeral Oration
My mum was born Catherine Josephine Hoey on 9th June 1914 in Adavoyle. To put her long life in context, that was the year WW1 broke out. She was one of twin daughters to Hugh Hoey and Mary Catherine Dowdall.
I’ll upload the rest of this photo later. In the meantime, another little quiz.
The boy in the middle of the back row is Martin mcCaul, then of 5 Orior Road. Now he is Chairman of Killeavy Social Club!
Who are the others? Over to you!
1947 was the coldest winter in living memory, the year of the big snow. It fell and lasted for weeks. Indeed, it was the year of birth of Newry Journal’s editor and you’d know by the look of him that first cold winter stunted his growth!!
Watches were expensive and not in vogue with ordinary people in those days. In any case, we didn’t need them! There were many ways to tell the time; there were the trains, the church clock and the mill horns, for example.
My Uncle Raymond was a jack-of-all-trades. He could be called upon by his brothers and sisters to paint, paper, clear drains, in fact anything that needed to be done about the house he was their man. For years we believed him when he said that he was teaching the pups to swim whenever our bitch Toby gave birth to a litter.
The pan was used extensively at our house when we were young.
There were ten children, two parents and one granny to be catered for and my mother was the chief cook. The only time the pan was not used was when we had a roast or stew for dinner but even so the pan came out on Monday and the remains of the Sunday roast was cut into slices and fried on the pan along with the remains of the vegetables.
The final in the present series of Manley family snaps. Our picture shows (L-R) Eddie Hughes, Stephen and Kitty Manley (Bernadette’s parents) Alice McKeown (aunt) Josephine Manley (sister) Kathleen Manley (sister) Bridie McKeown Hughes (cousin) Marie Manley (sister) and finally, with the dog, Mickey Rooney (uncle).
Isn’t that the McKeown home on Catherine Street, facing St Joseph’s School entrance?
This time – finally – Bernadette has produced a photograph which includes an image of herself. Mind you, she’s quite young in it! That’s her in the back row with a bow in her hair and a hanky in her hand!
The whole list is:
Back from left: Kathleen O’Hagan: Anne McKeown: Bernadette Manley: Kathleen Manley:
Sean Rogan: Gerald Connell: Maureen Connell: Noel Connell: Ethna Manley
The photo below with the list of names was e-mailed to the Editor by Bernadette Manley who presently lives in the USA. We are confident that many of you will remember …
Maurice Connell: Thomas McKeown
Anne McKeown: Kathleen Manley: Anne Kane: Eithne Manley
Yvonne Connell: Hazel Smith: Theresa Kane
(P.S. A second photo is awaited!!)