I came across your website by accident, and there was a picture of a derelict farmstead above Slieve Gullion.
Ballard homestead
Places
Lazy lumps!
This is the first published of the recently submitted short stories. We do not intend to print these in any particular order, though we will signify the prize-winners! We are most grateful for each and every story submitted! Martin Payne gained second prize with another tale we will print shortly. This is more an amusing little anecdote!
Linenhall Square 1938
It’s almost seventy years ago now and only the child on the left has survived.
Queen Street
I do not recall when I typed up this list or where I sourced it. The result is I cannot remember of what year this is a list of the residents of Queen Street in Newry. Perhaps some reader will identify a name here and help us!
St Mary’s Street 1917 residents
Another in our occasional series of streets lists of generations gone by – this time Mary Street!
In the Hearse!
Christmas was always a busy time for us in the old Newry Mineral Water Company and the year of 1967 was no exception.
Old duck
I can vaguely remember my father coming home from
Jerretspass: Prefect
John McComb was a very quiet man. He bought one of them new-fangled cars – a wee ‘Prefect’ – even though he could not drive it.