Newry News and Irish Fun

Michael Mallin Park

What little remains of the sparse contribution of the Irish Citizens Association may lie in a few street names in the West Ward of Newry. Everyone has heard of James Connolly (of James Connolly Park, off Patrick Street) but who was Michael Mallin of the adjacent Park?

We’d cover a townland a night, maybe thirty or forty houses. The word…

Aa the world’s a stage

And aa the men and weemen merely players.

There was people cud take on the shape of a hare, if they…

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

You get to be burdened with debt if you can’t budge it.

Terms of abuse:

Lig silly, ‘he’s just a lig’; act the lig: pay no heed to that lig!

There was a son one time was all for putting his father away, saying he was done and no good only for eating!

It was this old gentleman farmer and he had three daughters. The two…

Talking of Brannon’s Ghost that was known for breaking ‘wine’, I read the…

The restaurant clientele was naturally fearful and concerned when three armed and masked men appeared at the door, intent on robbery. When the robbers failed to gain entry, people inside became puzzled.

Customers had entered easily. The large notice said [SLIDE] so they simply slid the reinforced glass door to one side. These guys tried pushing – then pulling. Then they put their collective shoulders to the door.

We all recall from our school days, tales of cruel shore people luring ships’ captains unto rocks with bright lights. They were after the spoils of wrecks, and they cared not at all for the watery fate of sailors

Did you know?

If a pregnant woman should spy a hare, she was to make a hole in her vest (everyone wore a vest then!). This was to ensure that the child she was carrying wouldn’t be born with a hare-lip.