On the left of our photograph is Yvonne Byrne of
Windmill Road 40 years ago
Places
In the trenches
Now for the anecdotes about Addy McLoughlin …..
Some ninety years ago our subject Addy McLaughlin of Newry met another young Newry lad in the terrible trenches of
Dick’s Ashtray
This ashtray was originally from the Lido Caf
It has, scratched on its surface the names of a lot of local young people of that time, that is, the mid nineteen sixties.
Are any of your names amongst this lot?
Or do you know anyone named here?
Maria Fearon
Olwen Dean
Gerry Brady
Maria McEvoy
Alicia Hanratty
Myles McKevitt
M Cunningham
John Cully
Benny McKeown
Jim McManus
Jean Havern
K Peters
Ann Hagan
Martin Blair
I was a bus?
There are a few other single Christian names and assorted initials also.
There are no political or paramilitary references, no swear words or no sexual innuendos.
We all were an innocent lot in those days.
The ashtray is quite genuine and was in the
Corn Market Soldiers
The soldiers billeted in Haldanes and Stark’s Factory during the War were often drilled in the streets around Corn Market where I lived. We all thought it fun to watch them.
Annamar School 1930s
I am greatly indebted to Mrs Norris and her husband, teachers of
Poyntzpass: Round squaring
There were four brothers in them days, Willie, Henry, Barney and Davey McSherry and they lived in Tullynacross. Henry and Barney worked at quarrying and did small road repairs. They used to go to Hugh Rafferty’s pub for a drink at dinner time.
A well-earned dunking!
There was a particular night I remember that was a great bit of craic and at the end of it all, they all drifted off in ones and twos. Then there was just Paddy Watters, Hugh Rafferty and me.
Don’t stand downwind of them!
There was an awful bunch of old-timers used to stand at the corner in those days in Poyntzpass – Eddie Magill, Hugh Rafferty, Paddy Watters, Billy McGivern and the like.
Thomas Martin and descendents
The photograph is of Thomas Martin, who was great grandfather to our esteemed readers Patrick J White (who supplied this information) and John McCaul.