South Armagh - Bandit Country (1976)
Northern Ireland: A 1976 BBC Panorama report looking at British Army operations in the south of County Armagh. Ending with an interview with then Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Places to see in ( Lurgan - UK )
Places to see in ( Lurgan - UK )
Lurgan is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and in the north-eastern corner of the county. Lurgan is about 18 miles (29 km) south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. It had a population of about 23,000 at the 2001 Census. It is within the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon district.
Lurgan is characteristic of many Plantation of Ulster settlements, with its straight, wide planned streets and rows of cottages. It is the site of a number of historic listed buildings including Brownlow House and the former town hall.
Historically the town was known as a major centre for the production of textiles (mainly linen) after the industrial revolution and it continued to be a major producer of textiles until that industry steadily declined in the 1990s and 2000s. The development of the 'new city' of Craigavon had a major impact on Lurgan in the 1960s when much industry was attracted to the area. The expansion of Craigavon's Rushmere Retail Park in the 2000s has affected the town's retail trade further.
Lurgan sits in a relatively flat part of Ireland by the south east shore of Lough Neagh. The two main formations in north Armagh are an area of estuarine clays by the shore of the lough, and a mass of basalt farther back. The earliest human settlements in the area were to the northwest of the present day town near the shore of the lough. When the land was handed to the Brownlow family, they initially settled near the lough at Annaloist, but later settled where the town was eventually built. The oldest part of the town, the main street, is built on a long ridge in the townland (baile fearainn) of Lurgan. A neighbouring hill is the site of Brownlow House, which overlooks Lurgan Park.
Lurgan has historically been an industrial town in which the linen industry predominated as a source of employment during the Industrial Revolution, and is said to have employed as many as 18,000 handloom weavers at the end of the 19th century, a figure significantly higher than the town's resident population at the time.
Lurgan town centre is distinctive for its wide main street, Market Street, one of the widest in Ireland, which is dominated at one end by Shankill Church in Church Place. A grey granite hexagonal temple-shaped war memorial sits at the entrance to Church Place, topped by a bronze-winged statue representing the spirit of Victorious Peace. A marble pillar at the centre displays the names of over 400 men from the town who lost their lives in the First World War.
At the junction of Market Street and Union Street is the former Lurgan Town Hall, a listed building erected in 1868. It was the first site of the town's library in 1891, was temporarily used as a police station in 1972 when it was handed to the Police Authority, and is today owned by the Mechanics' Institute and is available for conferences and community functions.
Lurgan railway station opened by the Ulster Railway on 18 November 1841, connecting the town to Belfast Great Victoria Street in the east and Portadown and Armagh in the west. The Great Northern Railway of Ireland provided further access to the west of Ulster which was then closed in the 1950s and 1960s from Portadown railway station. Presently Lurgan railway station is run by Northern Ireland Railways with direct trains to Belfast Great Victoria Street and as part of the Dublin-Belfast railway line. The Enterprise runs through Lurgan from Dublin Connolly to Belfast Central, and a change of train may be required at Portadown to travel to Newry or Dublin Connolly.
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Armagh City War Memorial
Armagh City War Memorial, this memorial can be found in front of the court house and the Royal Irish Fusiliers museum, it is sited on the Mall with the Boer War Memorial just 100 meters away in the centre of the Mall. There is also a garden of remembrance and a memorial stone to the 5th Belgian Infantry Brigade which was based in the city during the Second World War
Armagh Gaol
A peek inside the old Armagh Gaol
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Free Wales! The last Abergele Martyrs' March
I'm staying neutral on the politics here. This is to commemorate the death of 2 volunteers for the paramilitary Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, MAC in 1969, when their bomb exploded outside the library - supposedly while they were working on it. MAC became a paramilitary group as the English were moving in to local country houses, raising the property values and making it hard for the Welsh to afford homes, and the Liverpool Council voted to flood a village in a Welsh valley to use the water for an English city. The unanimous votes of Welsh politicians against this weren't enough to tip the vote, and the valley was displaced. The last straw for MAC was Investiture in 1969, which was the crowning of the Prince of Wales. It's seen by some as a blow to Welsh culture because the title Prince of Wales has been occupied by English royalty for centuries (imagine a French king of Spain).
During the Troubles in Ireland, these guys took a lot of influence from the IRA and from radical republican movements. The aims of MAC were to stop English developments in Wales, blow up the dam, and this bomb was designed to damage the tracks to stop Investiture.
I should point out fairly, that for the last decade the daughter of one of these men has campaigned to have these marches stopped. They no longer visit their graves, because they're in the same churchyard and she doesn't want her father to become a martyr for a cause she doesn't believe in. She's always maintained that there has never been any evidence tying her father to the group, apart from his death in the blast - and it's possible that he was killed trying to convince his friend not to go through with it.
The death of these 2 men sparked a minor insurgency. Groups like the Free Wales Army began burning townhouses, bombing pylons and construction sites, tearing up English flags, and dressing like the IRA for a short time. Eventually this minor Welsh Troubles mostly subsided, but these people remember their history.
Places to see in ( Craigavon - UK )
Places to see in ( Craigavon - UK )
Craigavon is a planned settlement in northern County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Its construction began in 1965 and it was named after Northern Ireland's first Prime Minister: James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. It was intended to be the heart of a new linear city incorporating Lurgan and Portadown, but this plan was abandoned and less than half of the proposed work was done.[3] Among locals today, Craigavon refers to the area between the two towns. It is built beside two artificial lakes and is made up of a large residential area (Brownlow), a second smaller one (Mandeville), plus a central area (Highfield) that includes a substantial shopping centre, a courthouse and the district council headquarters.
The lakes, a wildlife haven, are surrounded by woodland with walking trails. There is also a watersports centre, petting zoo, golf course and ski slope in the area. In most of Craigavon, motor vehicles are completely separated from pedestrians, and roundabouts are used extensively. Craigavon sometimes refers to the much larger Craigavon Urban Area, which includes Craigavon, Lurgan, Portadown, Waringstown and Bleary.
Craigavon was planned as a 'new city' for Northern Ireland that would mirror cities such as Cumbernauld and, later, Milton Keynes in Great Britain. It was conceived as a linear city that would link the towns of Lurgan and Portadown to create a single urban area and identity.
The design of Craigavon was based on Modernism and imbued with the spirit of the age. The planners separated motor vehicles from pedestrians and cyclists wherever possible, creating a network of paths allowing residents to travel across Craigavon without encountering traffic.
Craigavon was designed to be a very child-friendly environment with small playgrounds dotted throughout the residential areas. There was an emphasis on providing green space in the housing estates and safe paths to cycle on. The new town was also provided with many civic amenities including a leisure centre, library, shopping centre, civic centre, a large park with artificial lakes, playing fields, a petting zoo, public gardens and an artificial ski slope.
Craigavon lies on an area of flat land near the southeastern shore of Lough Neagh. The surrounding settlements (listed clockwise) are Aghacommon (north), Lurgan (northeast), Corcreeny (east), Bleary (southeast) and Portadown (southwest). It is separated from these surrounding settlements mostly by fields. The narrow gap between Craigavon and Portadown is marked by the fields/playing fields in Lisnisky and Kernan. The gap between Craigavon and Lurgan is narrower, being marked by fields/playing fields in Ballynamony, Tullygally, Taghnevan and Monbrief.
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Armagh Cathedral - Saint Patrick's Cathedral
This stunning Cathedral that is located in Armagh city is St. Patrick's Cathedral - or as it is sometimes referred to Armagh Cathedral - which overlooks this beautiful city and brings back history that is related to Saint Patrick who was behind building the church.
For this cathedral to come to life, it went through different building phases that started in 1840 and ended in 1904, and it was mainly built in order to serve as the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Armagh, the original Medieval Cathedral of St. Patrick having been transferred to the Protestant Church of Ireland at the time of the Irish Reformation.
This Cathedral stands on a hill that is known as Sandy Hill and so does its Anglican Counterpart; this is the reason why this cathedral overlooks the whole city of Armagh and makes one important historical attraction for those coming to visit the city and check what it has to offer them.
This cathedral which was built by Saint Patrick has gone through years of construction and there were those times in which the construction phase was the most slow. One of the longest gaps in this construction process was during the years of the Great Famine since the cathedral funds were diverted to the more pressing cause of the famine relief.
Since it took lots of years for this cathedral to come to life and open its doors to the people of Armagh, there were different Archbishops who were behind the work done in this cathedral. Archbishop William Crolly negotiated the current site for the cathedral and the original architect was Thomas J. Duff Newry. Primate Joseph Dixon who took the work from 1852 to 1866, declared East Monday as a Resumption Day, not just for the financial contributions for the cathedral, but also for the first bazaar that he organized and for which there were different gifts sent over, such as the grandfather clock which is now standing in the cathedral sacristy.
After the death of architect Thomas Duff, J. J. McCarthy took over and he even came up with a new plan but which was not entirely followed, it was used as a continuous plan for what Duff initially started. Under Archbishop Daniel McGettigan the cathedral was completed and he even witnessed the construction of the seven-terraced flight of steps leading from the cathedral gates to the piazza in front of the west door, and he also completed to make other additions since he built the Archbishop's house in 1879-1877 and the sacristan's lodge in 1884-1886 just inside the cathedral gates.
And eventually came Cardinal Michael Logue who was the one to bring lots of changes to the cathedral and since the interior of the cathedral was dull and undecorated, he even traveled to Italy on his personal expenses to see what the Vatican city has and try to implement some things from it; the walls decorated with mosaic, the stained glass windows, the oil ceilings, and every other thing was the work of Logue.
We have to say that St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh city is a piece of art, whether from the inside or from the outside, and this goes for the different eras it has been built in and the different minds who helped in adding different ideas to its building phase - it is definitely a place which those coming to Armagh city for the first time should visit and check.
St. Patrick's Cathedral has been built in the Gothic Revival Style and that was one of the reasons why the plan that Duff has placed was never changed afterwards by those other architects who came after. The interesting thing about the completion of this cathedral is that it was completed mainly by using Irish materials and workmanship, which means that it is a locally built cathedral.
The cathedral later on went through a restoration phase that took place in 2003 for major structural repairs that needed to be done and this also included restoring and enhancing the interior decoration and the upgrading of the existing facilities. There were different changes done to the cathedral and there were even things that were transported to other places to make a new one for praying and meditation.
Being in Armagh city, Northern Ireland, urges you to walk through the city in general and check some of the most famous places that is found there and which will even attract you generally with their buildings ( There are some recommendations which we have, such as Armagh County Museum ( Navan Fort ( Armagh Planetarium and Observatory ( as well as some other buildings like the library for example.
This is one of the most famous Cathedrals in Northern Ireland and one that carries great history behind; it should be already on your list!
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The Ballad of Peter Corrigan
The Ballad of Republican Peter Corrigan
Peter Corrigan of Armagh City, a father of eleven children, a very active and courageous activist for Sinn Fein was gunned down by cowards claiming themselves the Protestant Action Force (PAF) notoriously known to be British soldiers out of uniform..
He will always be remembered with pride.
Oglach Peter Corrigan 1935 - 1982
Moriarty family Irish roots; Co. Armagh Ireland, genealogy notes; Scottish Tartan Archives; IF113
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Education Village.wmv
Darlington Education Village has a wide and varied timetable of community activities organised by Kajima Community. Kajima work in the community to develop and foster links with organisations who use the school during the evenings weekends and school holidays. For more information please contact 0191260 5336 or visit
Places to see in ( Banbridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Banbridge - UK )
Banbridge is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Bann and the A1 road and is named after a bridge built over the River Bann in 1712. Banbridge is situated in the civil parish of Seapatrick and the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Upper Half.
The town began as a coaching stop on the road from Belfast to Dublin and thrived from Irish linen manufacturing. The town is the headquarters for Banbridge District Council. The town's main street is very unusual, and rises to a steep hill before levelling out. In 1834 an underpass was built as horses with heavy loads would faint before reaching the top of the hill. It was built by William Dargan and is officially named 'Downshire Bridge', though it is often called The Cut.
Banbridge, home to the Star of the County Down, is a relatively young town, first entering recorded history around 1691 during the aftermath of the struggle between William III and James II. An Outlawry Court was set up in the town to deal with the followers of James. Banbridge has staged an annual busking competition and music festival called Buskfest since 2004. Performers often travel long distances to participate. The competition closes with an evening concert composed of performances by world-famous artists. Recently, Banbridge has been twinned with Ruelle in France.
Like the rest of Ireland, the Banbridge area has long been divided into townlands, whose names mostly come from the Irish language. Banbridge sprang up in a townland called Ballyvally. Over time, the surrounding townlands have been built upon and they have lent their names to many streets, roads and housing estates. The following is a list of townlands within Banbridge's urban area.
Near the town lie the ancient Lisnagade Fort, Legannany Dolmen, and the Loughbrickland Crannóg, constructed around the year 500 AD. Thomas Ferguson & Co Ltd factory tours. The town is situated a short distance from the Brontë Homeland in Rathfriland- the church at which Patrick Brontë preached often hosts musical performances by well-known artists, e.g. Eddi Reader.
Banbridge is on the A1 main road between Belfast and Newry. The nearest railway station is Scarva on Northern Ireland Railways' Belfast–Newry railway line, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Banbridge. Banbridge had its own railway station from 1859 until 1956. The Banbridge, Newry, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway opened Banbridge (BJR) railway station on 23 March 1859.
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Johnson family name; researching Queens Co. Ireland, Irish Dolman body IF 82
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Len Graham and Roísín White
Live in the Seminar Room, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin City, 3rd of December, 2014 as part of the Man, Woman and Child Project.
Man, Woman and Child is a research and performance project devised and co-ordinated by Michael Fortune and in 2014 features traditional singers, Sandra Joyce, Grace Toland, Jim McFarland, Hammy Hamilton, Róisín Gaffney, Fergus Russell, Roisín White and Len Graham.
This is the second strand to this project, which began in 2013 and is based around The Child Ballad Collection: a collection of traditional songs collected by the American collector Francis J Child in England and Scotland between 1882 and 1898. Although many of the songs, or variants of them, are sung in the Irish tradition, no comprehensive study and performance of the ballads had been undertaken in Ireland prior to this project beginning. In each instance, a male singer was paired with a female singer, giving rise to the project title - Man, Woman (the performers) and Child (the Ballad Collection).
This project is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, The National Library, The Irish Traditional Music Archive, Age and Opportunity and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Recorded and Produced by Michael Fortune for the project website - manwomanandchild.ie
2013, St Isidore's Irish College, Rome - Part 2/2
2013, St Isidore's Irish College, Rome - Part 2/2
Saint Isidore's College is part of the Irish Franciscan Province of the Order of Friars Minor. The College today is on lease to the Minister General of the Order, who has transferred to St. Isidore's what was the entire community and activity of St. Bonaventure's College, Grottaferrata ( Rome ).
It has been agreed to retain an Irish Franciscan presence, if at all possible. Significant structural work has been done to house the new community, and to house the library from Grottaferrata.
The new community took up residence in early November 2008, and now numbers fourteen friars from eight different countries - Italy, Ireland, Germany, Poland, South Africa/USA, Switzerland and Madagascar.
The main work of the community is research and publication, and the maintenance of two important research libraries
History: (Continued from Part 1)
Inspired by its founder, St.Isidores went far beyond its original purpose. It not only became a centre for Irish nationalist exiles, including the group of exiles Wadding had gathered round him, but also a centre of learning and culture, and a centre of missionary activity known thoughout Europe. Luke Wadding was considered by many Ireland's first ambassador to the Holy See.
The chief object of St.Isidore's College was never forgotten: the training of missionary friars to keep the faith alive at home in Ireland. Many gave their lives in so doing, among them Francis O'Sullivan of Kerry and Patrick Fleming of Slane ( he suffered in Prague), Eugene of Cahan, Bonaventure O'Carrighy, Daniel Neilan of County Clare, and Richard Synnot of Wexford. The missionaries travelled to Ireland in secret and in disguise, living in the utmost hardship, sometimes in hill-cabins and caves, enduring hunger and cold.
Inspired by its founder, St.Isidore's went far beyond its original purpose. It not only became a centre for Irish nationalist exiles, including the group of exiles Wadding had gathered round him, but also a centre of learning and culture, and a centre of missionary activity known throughout Europe. Luke Wadding was considered by many Ireland's first ambassador to the Holy See.
The chief object of St.Isidore's College was never forgotten: the training of missionary friars to keep the faith alive at home. Many gave their lives in so doing, among them Francis O'Sullivan of Kerry and Patrick Fleming of Slane ( he suffered in Prague), Eugene of Cahan, Bonaventure O'Carrighy, Daniel Neilan of County Clare, and Richard Synnot of Wexford. The missionaries travelled to Ireland in secret and in disguise, living in the utmost hardship, sometimes in hill-cabins and caves, enduring hunger and cold.
The mortal remains of many patriots and scholars, who were exiled for their religion, are buried in the crypt below the Church. For three centuries it was the crypt of the Irish in Rome. Their names are recorded on tombs and paving-stones. Cardinal Corsini is buried there, and Luke Wadding himself;also James MacCormack and, among others, Aodh Mac Aingil (Hugh McCaughwell) known to scholars and experts as Ireland's most outstanding theologian of the times. MacAingil taught philosophy and theology for fourteen years at St.Anthony's College in Leuven, and was consecrated Archbishop of Armagh, but he died in Rome in 1626 before setting out for his See.
Opposite the altar of St Francis is a recumbent effigy of Octavia Catherine Bryan, an 18-year old Irish girl, who caught a fever and died during a visit to Rome in 1864. She was the daughter of Colonel George Bryan, prominent in the Catholic Emancipation Movement. John Henry Newman, the future cardinal, but then a deacon studying in Rome as a convert from Anglicanism, was asked to preach his first sermon as a Catholic at the funeral of Colonel Bryan's daughter. He recorded the event in his diary.
Above the door at one end of the College portico St Patrick's famous dictum is inscribed, enjoining obedience to the Holy See, best known for its last line implying that to be a Christian is therefore to be Roman: SI QUAE DIFFICILES QUAESTIONES IN HAC INSULA ORIANTUR AD SEDEM APOSTOLICAM REFERANTUR UT CHRISTIANI ITA ET ROMANI SITIS
'Ghost' captured on camera hanging around gravestone as youths drive past cemetery
A spooky video has captured what viewers are calling a 'ghost', hanging around at the side of a gravestone in a cemetery.
The footage was recorded by a group of youths who were driving past the row of gravestones when the eerie figure suddenly appears.
In the clip, the ghost seems to emerge from behind a gravestone, as looks as though it is wearing a long cloak.
The same figure was then seen again, apparently loitering around the gates to the cemetery.At the time, they did not realise it, but when reviewing the recording they could see that they were not alone and that they recorded several ghosts on their nocturnal route. The video does not look very good since it was recorded by a very old camera a few years ago, but that also makes the recording more likely to be real.
It is not clear when or where the footage was taken.
Voices of Gullion (Irish)
This film was made as part of the South Armagh: Changing the Narrative filmmaking programme run by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and the Nerve Centre in 2019 to mark the Women in the Archives strand of Making the Future.
The film explores language, song tradition and South Armagh’s stunning landscape.
Women in the Archives is a strand of the Making the Future project, which is a regional programme being delivered by the Nerve Centre, National Museums NI, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and Linen Hall Library. Making the Future is supported through €1.82m of EU funding under the PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
Irish Regiments of the Civil War
John Hogan, owner of the Port City Café and Irish Pub, speaking about the history and influence of the all-Irish regiments of the Civil War.
360 Degree Tour of St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh
In the year 445, according to tradition, St Patrick built a stone church on a hill, then called Druimsailech [the ridge of sallows]. This was granted to him by the local chieftain, Daire. In 447 St Patrick ordained that Armagh should have pre-eminence over all the churches of Ireland, a position which it holds to this day. Little remains of the original building, except perhaps the bases of the tower piers, rebuilt in 1834. In 832 peace in Ireland was shattered by Viking invaders. The Cathedral was subjected to regular burnings and plunderings. In 1261 Primate OScanlan had to rebuild it, and this was the start of the building we now see. In 1428 accidental fire damaged the Cathedral. Primate John Swayne restored it.
In the sixteenth century the Cathedral suffered more burnings and damage. In 1729 the Dean and Chapter turned the south transept into the Bishops Court blocking up the arches between the Nave and the aisle. In 1765 Archbishop Richard Robinson fitted the Cathedral to make it possible to hold divine services. He did much for Armagh; being responsible for many of the fine buildings we see today, such as the Archbishops Palace, the Public Library, the Royal School and the Observatory. In 1834 Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, a famous English architect, was employed by Archbishop John Beresford to restore the building. The chief drawback to this restoration was that it disguised beyond recognition nearly all the distinctive traces of Primate OScanlans building. Later, further minor works of restoration included the reordering of the Chapter and Choir Stalls as well as the addition of a new Archbishops Throne [1887]. In 1903 a reredos of Corsham Stone, representing the Last Supper, was erected behind the Altar, and the easternmost bay of the Choir was fitted as a Lady
Chapel. In 1950 extensive repairs were carried out to the roof of the Nave and the North Transept.
During the 1970s and 1980s more interior restoration was undertaken due to an outbreak of dry rot in the Nave and Transepts. The most recent restoration which included major work to many of the windows was completed in 2005. A building of such age naturally requires constant attention and repair. This support has been and is given by the parishes of the Archdiocese, the Cathedral Board
and Congregation and the Friends of the Cathedral.