Newry Film Club: Departures
Newry Film Club is screening the last film of the season next Wednesday night, 1st June, at the usual time of 8.00pm in Newry Arts Centre.
For a daughter ..
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on.
Clock of Crossmaglen
Tall-masted Schooners
By the early eighteenth century Newry had become an important trading centre and tall-masted schooners from all parts of the world sailed up the tidal waterway as far as (the present-day) Quay Street area.
The Golden Teapot
O’er the Carstands, famed in Newry, the Golden Teapot glows,
Hanging high over the traffic, that now so swiftly flows –
Fr Peter McVerry
The son of the late Dr John McVerry and his wife Eleanor, Peter McVerry was educated at the Abbey primary School and then at Clongowes Wood College. On leaving school he joined the Jesuit Order, secured a science degree at University College Dublin and taught for some years.
Noel Scott’s Shop
Janine Masters again – and her neck of the woods, too! She tells me this is Noel Scott’s shop on the corner of Postley Row and
Fews Dialect: L 2
Labour dig, toilLaced beaten, ‘Pat’s Hughie was laced to ribbons in the fight’Laced fortified with spiritsLamentable bad,…
Ancient Britons
We lately made reference to the ‘Ancient Britons’ – (S Moninna and Killeavy…
2012 Lislea Drama Festival
The 31st Lislea Drama Festival begins on the last Saturday of the month. The organisers have the good sense to stage at most three plays per week, giving both teams and patrons a break.
Dia Gnossis
Dear Agnes,
My doctor gave me a sealed letter to present to my hospital consultant. Curious both about his reading of my ailment and of his opinion of me, I opened it, read it and resealed it in a new envelope on which I typed the consultant’s name (this originally was hand-written).