2015 Famine Commemoration starts with school events in Newry
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...
View ArticleNew exhibition on transport opens at Newry Museum
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...
View ArticleNewry Museum 2015 Famine Commemoration events
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...
View ArticleNewry to host exciting International Conference on the Great Famine
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...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor, ‘Is the Great Famine still with us?’
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...
View ArticleRetracing the steps of Famine emigrants in Warrenpoint
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...
View ArticleFamine remembered at Newry commemorative event
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...
View Article‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Find out in PRONI
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...
View ArticleNewry Love Heritage NI 2016 event announced
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...
View ArticleNewry Museum event to focus on Edith Cavell and the Newry Connection
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...
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