I will transport you now to the other end of town – the South-East – at the outbreak of the Great War. Who lived there?
Boat Street etc 1914
Places
Canal Street Residents 1914
Canal Street used to have its own Police Barracks and its own
My father once worked for Joe McCullough of Number 19 who was a carpenter.
Sunnyside
When we arrived in Canada way back in the early Twenties, our house in St Bride’s had not yet been built and we were assigned a house on a farm in Sunnyside – about fourteen miles north-east of Edmonton.
Who’ll dig the new potatoes?
Though just a boy, I had kept a dry eye throughout this departure. Not so my grandfather Old Felix. Tears were coursing down the old man’s deeply-grooved cheeks.
‘Point Residents 1916 ..more
This is the second part of those promised lists of Warrenpoint residents of ninety years ago!
Warrenpoint 1916 Residents
The final morning
I had hardly lain down it seemed to me, before it was time to get up again on that fateful departure day. The sun had risen and light flooded into the bedroom through the east-facing window.
Leaving Old Eliza
He was not the first of her children to leave. A daughter had parted for
Ardboe Exile c1920
The story of unwilling Irish emigrants to Canada
If you check on Google Earth, you will find that St Bride’s,