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Bateman play: Film Club

May 29, 2020November 1, 2010 by John McCullagh

On Wednesday night of this week (3 November) Newry Film Club are showing the acclaimed film ‘A Single Man’ in the Arts Centre at 8.00pm.

Prejudice

June 2, 2020May 28, 2009 by John McCullagh

When we were young, our mother insisted on the daily communal recitation of the Rosary.

Boys Toys of the 50s

June 3, 2020April 7, 2008 by John McCullagh

In an attempt to revitalise the toy industry after the end of World War I, the American Tootsie Toys company introduced a new range of innovative pocket-sized diecast toys in 1918. Tootsie’s success in the USA inspired Frank Hornby, one of Britain‘s leading toy manufacturers, to try to do the same in Britain. Already a household name with his pre-war invention ‘Mechanics Made Easy’ sets (later and more commonly known as Meccano), in 1920 Hornby turned his attention to developing a new “O” gauge toy railway system.

Gerry Davey stonemason

June 3, 2020February 24, 2008 by John McCullagh

The late Gerry Davey was a stonemason supreme – an art that is lost in these days of mechanical devices.

Eva Clarke

June 3, 2020February 9, 2008 by John McCullagh

The following article appeared recently in a free publication and I thought it deserved a larger audience …..

Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke spoke recently to the students of St Paul‘s High School Bessbrook about her life. This lady is a mere two years older than your editor and it is almost unbelievable the difference in our paths through this world!

Model airplanes

June 3, 2020January 17, 2008 by John McCullagh

Before Christmas I had cause, like many others to go up into the attic to retrieve the Christmas decorations. When I was up I decided to have a look at some of the old junk gathered there.

phi

June 3, 2020January 15, 2008 by John McCullagh

I am returning to a topic touched upon earlier, the significance of certain concepts in mathematics [and nature] and in particular, to the Fibonacci sequence of number …

The Truck [final episode]

June 4, 2020December 9, 2007 by John McCullagh

The old Thames Trader truck was written off and I never set eyes on it again.

The Truck [penultimate]

June 5, 2020December 8, 2007 by John McCullagh

Our first two calls at Keady went all right because the three boys riding, and drinking on the back of the truck were still in a state of sobriety and able to lend a hand.