Windsor Hill, late 50s :strip A
More than a half century has passed! How time flies. I know little about these children, now retired adults! I would welcome your comments!
Linenhall Square 1935 : last
Of these occupants of the famous Linenhall Square in 1935, eight were no longer resident in the next generation.
Of the rest, you will know these people as well as me.
Illicit Trade on The Mall
It was wartime food shortages, coupons and restrictions that brought the Butter Market to an ignominious close in 1948. That end was expedited by the growing enterprise of
Crossmaglen Evictions 1888
The last two decades of the nineteenth century saw pivotal change that presaged the revolution to come. The founding of the Home Rule League in 1873 began a decade of agitation centring on this, and on the land question, under the leadership of Michael Davitt of the Land League.
Parnell led eighty-five Home Rulers at Westminster. John F Small’s election as nationalist M.P. for South Down followed the reform and extension of the franchise in 1884. The introduction of a bill by British Prime Minister William Gladstone in 1886 to grant Home Rule to Ireland precipitated a crisis. He had already set out on a course to settle the land question in Ireland. There was also the beginning of a Gaelic revival, and the Fenian question had never quite gone away. Yet all the while mass emigration continued apace and those who stayed on to work the land continued to labour under iniquitous landlords imposing rack rents for land that was never rightfully theirs.
Pitch-capped at Grinan
Nor – on that dire and fateful day in 1797, did the townland of neighbouring Grinan escape unscathed, for the Ancient Britons returned to town via that route.
Chips with everything!
A few dozen people, mostly academics in the USA involved in the development of the project, have had a smart chip the size of a rice grain inserted subcutaneously.
2012 Newry Drama Festival Opens
The Diamond Jubilee Newry Drama Festival kicks off tonight at 8 pm in…
Grief of a Mother
Hughie’s coffin would not fit through the porch door. The window of the little bedroom – his bedroom – had to be removed.
Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary 1837
By way of contrast with Dr Pococke’s jaundiced, personal account of Irish towns (see previous entry on Carlingford) – and indeed those of other English travellers in Ireland in the 17th-19th centuries – Samuel Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary (1837) was a disciplined, informative account from a publisher who also produced similar works on England, Wales and Scotland.
Newry Chamber Young Musicians..
Wednesday evening the 15 September in the Arts Centre at 8.00pm sees the return of the ever-popular Young Musicians Concert hosted by Joanne Quigley.
Bridgit: Goddess?
It was not unknown historically, for Christian authorities to vest in their holy people many of the characteristics of the more ancient gods and goddesses beloved of the people.
Dodgem Cops
The police arrived promptly in response to a father’s call that his son had sustained an injury as a result of a collision. Cars had been left abandoned and strewn across the scene. Some had been deliberately rammed into each other, reports suggesting that some drivers were even laughing as they ploughed into their victims, sending them into a spin.
Bessbrook: 100 years ago
On one wall inside the Chinese Restaurant in