On Tuesday 11th October 2016, the Ulster History Circle unveiled a blue plaque in William Street, commemorating Ada Bodart (née Doherty). Born in Newry in 1874, Ada was the niece of Robert Hogg Doherty, long serving Clerk of Newry Town Commissioners and Urban District Council. Ada moved to Belgium where she married Louis Joseph Bodart […]
The Department for Communities has announced the programme of events for 2016 Love Heritage NI. Locations open to the public in the Newry area include Killevy Churches on Saturday 27th August from 11am -3pm. This site at the foot of Slieve Gullion contains back to back churches; the West Church dates from 11th Century and […]
Culture Minister, Carál Ní Chuilín, has encouraged people to avail of the records held in PRONI. The Minister was speaking before the broadcast of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ on BBC One. The Minister said, “Back in February, the BBC production team visited PRONI to help research the family history of writer and actor, […]
The deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Culture Minister Carál Nί Chuilίn have remembered the awful effects of the famine at the eighth annual famine commemoration in Newry. The annual commemorative event was organised by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (DAHG) and this is the first time that the event was held […]
One of the highlights of this year’s Annual Famine Commemoration will be the Newpoint Players’ production ‘Retracing The Steps’ which will be performed in Warrenpoint on Sunday 27th September at locations by the waterside from 2pm – 3.30pm. The scenes, written and devised by Sean Treanor and directed by Aveen Stewart, Emma O’Hanlon, Donal O’Hanlon […]
Dear Editor, Recent images of people from Syria and other countries fleeing their own lands across dangerous waters in flimsy boats with little or no possessions evoke the experience of Irish famine victims who left Ireland for a better life in Britain, Australia, and America. Whilst aspects of the Great Irish Famine, the policies, laws, […]
In the middle of the modern migrant crisis, with European countries attempting to accommodate tens of thousands of refugees, the National Famine Commemoration will this week cross the border into Northern Ireland. It is an opportunity to reflect on the similarities between the treatment of those now attempting to enter the European Union and the […]
The Annual Famine Commemoration 2015 will take place on Saturday, 26th September, in Newry. This is the eighth year in which the Great Famine has been marked with a formal Commemoration and the first time that the Commemoration will take place in the north of Ireland. In recognition of the fact that the Great Famine […]
On 28th May 2015, the Chair of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, Cllr. Naomi Bailie, opened a new temporary exhibition ‘The world has become smaller: transport through the ages in Newry and Mourne’. The exhibition, which runs until 2nd May 2016, explores the development of transport in the area from prehistoric times to the […]
Newry and Mourne Museum hosted a week of events for schools examining the effects of the Famine. This is part of an extensive programme of activities organised by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council for the 2015 Famine Commemoration taking place 26th September in Newry. To mark this event Newry and Mourne Museum presented its […]
