Oisin & S. Patrick
‘It wus in the days of Oisin, an’ Patrick was sore tormented for iverything that he’d be buildin’ on the Brague wud be down in the mornin’.
An’ Oisin wus jist back from the lan’ of niver die, where he might have been livin’ still, only that he liked Ireland better. An’ that’s that.
Bagenal Dynasty I
Although the Bagenal dynasty stretched into the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Newry, the only men to impact on the larger Irish stage were the first and second, Nicholas and his son Henry.
1915 Army Recruits: D-F
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Castle Street a century ago
Streets of Yesteryear 1913 Castle Street 7 James Kelly 9 Margaret Doherty 11…
Me poor wee bucket!
In them days we’d pick blackberries. Free food growing in the hedges, to make free jam. Except you’d have to buy the sugar, of course. There was places too, where you could sell the blackberries for money!
Excursions etc.
The Laundry Van: In the days before washing powder, automatic driers and washing machines in the home, people resorted to ‘steam laundries’ or ‘home laundries’ especially for such large items as blankets and bed linen. There was more demand for them in winter, when drying at home was impossible. The van would collect the soiled items and the laundry list and return then cleaned and ironed items several days later.
Doggie-fashion
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Dr William Drennan
In the final decades of the eighteenth century the radical opposition in
Adavoyle Ambush
The photo below is of the long-abandoned Adavoyle Railway Station, the one through which De Valera was ‘deported’ by the RUC that time he was arrested at the
Brother Barney Liston
I happened to be out on the town with my wife on Saturday evening when the conversation turned on philosophy and its influence on Western thought ….
Michael J Murphy: influences
Although he was born in Liverpool, Michael had already, by the time he was taken home to Dromintee in 1922, been brought up in an atmosphere of storytelling.