Meadow 1957: Boat is launched
Lucy Poems
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love
Last Man to Hang
We conclude, with this item, our series on the murder of Pearl Gamble by Robert McGladdery on Saturday 28 January 1961. Today is the forty-sixth anniversary of that fateful night. Had this terrible fate not befallen her,
Events in Newry’s History
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN HISTORY OF NEWRY
1819 St Mary’s Parish Church (COI) opened.
1823 Gas lighting comes to town: to Ballybot in 1834.
1825 Foundation stone laid of Catholic cathedral.
1828 Cathedral opened.
In Parliament, Counsellor O’Hanlon’s son Hugh sponsored a bill for “the better lighting, watching, cleansing and paving of the town of
1829
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Catholic Emancipation Act passed at
Control of Canal goes to Newry Navigation Company.
1830 Order of Poor Clares opens a convent in Newry.
1831 Patrick Jennings of Newry becomes P.M. of
1833 Cholera in Newry: 271 people affected; 127 die
Charles Russell (Lord Killowen) born in
.
1835 Bank of
1838
Daniel O’Connell visits Newry.
1841 Newry Workhouse opened.
1842 Celebrated novelist and traveller William Thackeray visited and praised Newry in print.
1843 Courthouse at Trevor Hill built.
1846 Old bridge at Ballybot (the
1847 Poor Law duty (to make ratepayers responsible for local poor – i.e. Workhouse inmates) established.
1849 Newry-Warrenpoint railway opened.
1845-9 Great Famine decimated
Great hunger, disease and loss of life throughout wider district and rest of
Accelerated emigration from Newry and Warrenpoint ports.
1851 Christian Brothers came to Newry
1854 Towns Improvement (
1855 Kerrs Mill / Sands’ Clanrye Mills erected
1865 Towns Improvement (
Newry-Greenore railway link opened
Christian Brothers’
1870 Dominican Fathers come to Newry
1871 Newry Water Act for improvement of town’s supply
Newry’s population reaches 14,158
1875 John Mitchel (and John Martin) dies.
1848 Householders (RC) Donaghmore
Householder Lists, South Down 1848 : compiled by Father Ryan (Administrator, Donaghmore 1848) …
William Kirk of Keady
The centre of the S Armagh
Death in a hovel
People think they are hard done by these days.
Read an edited version of an entry in Newry Reporter 31 March 1908:
That’s the spirit!
‘On you go now! Run, son, like the devil
And tell your mother to try
To find me a bubble for the spirit level
And a new knot for this tie.’
The Last Druid 1913-1996
Michael J. Murphy, writer and folklorist, was born in Eden Street, Liverpool , in June 1913 and died at Walterstown, Castlebellingham, Co. Louth, on May 18th 1996.
Who will win?
‘Fools rush in’, they say, and here’s this fool rushing in again with his predictions for the Amateur Dr