Peter Bradley writes of Bessbrook long ago. ‘I was born in Newry in 1917 but when I was very young the family moved to
Bessbrook Mill
Places
Connolly/Mallin Parks built!
Joe Murphy, who lived at the bottom of Chinatown hill, was watchman on the building site of
Bushwacked by Annie Oakley
It was a night in the summer of 1958 when I was nine years of age of which I write.
With my cousin Brian Dean I emerged from the Frontier Cinema at the end of the ‘First House’. It was about 8.30 p.m. and there was – what to us was – a very intriguing-looking female of about fourteen or fifteen years of age standing at the William Street corner.
1957 Liverpool, Nurses’ Dance
O K, so this one is really difficult! But many of those pictured in this great period photo were Irish!
We will start you off with a few names. David Keane, brother of Tommy, ex-V.P. of the Abbey Grammar is in the middle of the back row, and beside him is fellow Lislea man, Johnny O’Donnell.
Cowan Street: July, pre-War
Janine Masters kindly donated these Old Newry photos today. We upload them immediately because they are so interesting.
Linenhall Square: Resumed!
We got to
Paddy Woods of 35 had a daughter Patsy who married Arthur Ruddy ex-Councillor for the SDLP. There was another daughter Peggy. And a Lily and a Harry (RIP).
Hello and Cheerio
Hellos, Cheerios…………. and in between – a myriad of salutations, warmest of welcomes, generosity of hospitality, people, weather and scenery.
The Mill Horn
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.
Rathfriland long ago
When we lived there almost eighty years ago, the town of