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Photograph taken outside Newry Town Hall on 8th February 1927, marking the visit of James Craig, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, to meet with members of Newry Urban District Council and other local public bodies. James Craig, Viscount Craigavon, can be seen in the front row, third from right with Sir Dawson Bates, Minister of Home Affairs on his right and William Robinson, Chairman of the Council on his left.

Apr 19 2024

James Craig, Newry and ‘power-sharing’

Brian M. Walker, Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, explores the significance of a photograph taken of James Craig, the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and the members of Newry Urban District Council at Newry Town Hall in 1927

St Bartholomew’s Church, Donaghmore. The main building was consecrated in 1741 and would have been whitewashed. The bell tower was added in 1829 and the chancel and stained-glass east window in 1879. The high cross can be seen on the left.

Mar 15 2023

Categories: Newry and Mourne Museum, St. Patrick, Early Christian, High Crosses, churches, local history

The Christian Heritage of Donaghmore

To mark St. Patrick's Day, Joanne Cummins, Collections Officer at Newry and Mourne Museum, explores the rich Christian heritage of Donaghmore and its associations with St. Patrick.

Christopher Shortall (centre) in Theatre during his overseas service with the RAF in the Second World War.

Feb 10 2023

Categories: Newry and Mourne Museum, Guest Blog, Exhibition, temporary, medicine, hospitals, doctors, nurses, History

Christopher Shortall – A Surgeon during the Second World War by Myles Shortall

Myles Shortall, a retired Newry GP, remembers his father, a wartime Medical Officer and Surgeon at Daisy Hill Hospital and Newry General Hospital. This is an edited version of an article in the booklet accompanying Newry and Mourne Museum’s temporary exhibition, Caring for the Community: The Development of Medicine in Newry and Mourne.

Theatre staff at Daisy Hill Hospital in 1984. Front row (left to right): Dympna Duffy, Noreen Magee, May Finnerty, Catriona Fitzpatrick, unknown, Beatrice O’Reilly, Roisin McKay. Back row (left to right): John Davis, Rosaleen Larkin, Jacqueline Wynne, Winifred McClory, Theresa O’Callaghan, Ruth Crozier, Marian McCall, Mary Malone, Oliver Ryan.

Feb 10 2023

Categories: Newry and Mourne Museum, Guest Blog, Exhibition, temporary, medicine, hospitals, doctors, nurses, History

A Life less ‘Orderly’, working as a Medical Orderly at Daisy Hill Hospital during the Troubles by John Davis

John Davis, a former Medical Orderly, shares his memories of working at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry. This is an edited version of an article in the booklet accompanying Newry and Mourne Museum’s temporary exhibition, Caring for the Community: The Development of Medicine in Newry and Mourne.

Employees of the Kilkeel Knitting Factory pictured in the 1950s

Feb 10 2023

Categories: Newry and Mourne Museum, Kilkeel, textiles, local industry, economic history, World Holocaust Memorial Day

Kilkeel Knitting Factory by Ken Abraham

As we continue to reflect on World Holocaust Memorial Day throughout the month of February, we focus on the background to the development of the Kilkeel Knitting Factory which was established by Edith and Kurt Sekules in 1950. Before World War II the Sekules family had been part of the Jewish community in Vienna and settled in Northern Ireland in 1947.

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