Personal tragedy : Canal/towpath
One cold frosty morning in the mid nineteen sixties, just a few hundred yards further on along the towpath from Riley’s Lock there occurred an extremely sad incident.
Hidden meanings in words
Is there a word that means the opposite of an oxymoron?
There are some of our readers much cleverer and better informed than us.
We await your reply.
While you work on that, we offer you a few examples.
Daughter’s Wedding
Here was I, indulging in a daydream about my darling daughter’s forthcoming wedding, when – skimming through an old newspaper – I came upon this poem. Boy, were my eyes opened?
Sunnyside: Kathy Morley
Our next nearest neighbours in Sunnyside was the Morley family who lived a mile off down the road.
Forced emigration
The disgraceful extended incarceration of four Mayo farmers for protesting the danger to their lives and families from Esso’s high-pressure gas-lines running contiguous to their homes, brought to mind the similar treatment of their forebears a century and a half ago from occupation landlords.
1641-1956 Newry Events
Headless Corpse
The criminal charges appeared strangely out of sync with the circumstances that presented…