Aislín McGuckin is a Northern-Irish actress who was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland in 1974.
Many thought that the Republic was about to invade the North, and contingency plans were drawn up by the Irish Army to take Derry and Newry.
John Grubb Richardson (13 November 1813 – 1891) was an Irish linen merchant, industrialist and philanthropist who founded the model village of Bessbrook near Newry in 1845, in what is now Northern Ireland.
He was a younger son of John Thom (died 1808), born on 10 January 1808 at Newry, County Down, where his father, a native of Lanarkshire, was Presbyterian minister from 1800.
Alfred Ludlam (1810 – 8 November 1877) A leading New Zealand politician and philanthropist
The Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker rendezvoused with the B-47 Stratojet bomber at an altitude of 15,500 feet in the Fighting Fox aerial refueling area over Newry.
The two yearly events celebrated by the community, both held by St. Patrick's Parish, are the Lenten fish fries, held in the cafeteria of the school, and the summer festival, held near the end of July early August on the school playground and in the gymnasium.
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Along South Street, the southmost east-west road in the town, are located a post office, a small apartment building, a furniture store, a used home appliances and furniture store, and St. Patrick's Parish, a Roman Catholic parish comprising a small church, a graveyard, a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes, and an elementary school.
Parker Green International owns among other assets, the Quays Shopping & Leisure Complex, Newry, Northern Ireland, Drumalane Mill Newry, Northern Ireland, and Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Carlow, Ireland.
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Parker Green, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Newry, Northern Ireland, active in developing and investing in property across three key markets
Textile mills came into the area with the construction of a plant-and-mill village by the Courtenay Manufacturing Company in Newry on the Little River in 1893.
St Colman's College, Newry, a boys secondary school in County Down, Northern Ireland
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He was educated at the Christian Brothers, Abbey Grammar School in Newry.
Arthur Charles Innes, was an Irish Conservative Party Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who represented the constituency of Newry.
Daisy Hill Hospital, a National Health Service Hospital in Newry, Northern Ireland
Denis Caulfield Brady, was a Liberal Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who represented the constituency of Newry.
It was built between 1776 and 1787 by Isaac Corry, MP for Newry for thirty years, on land he inherited from his father.
Because the partition of Ireland placed the Irish border across the DN&G's Greenore – Newry line, it was not absorbed into either the Great Southern Railways in 1925 or the Ulster Transport Authority in 1948.
In 1806 the changes in ownership of the Newry estates altered Corry's position; the lands had passed to a senior line of the Needham family and Lady Downshire, decided to return his brother General Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey at the general election.
John Joseph Mooney (1874–1934), Irish politician, Member of Parliament for South County Dublin 1900–1906, and Newry 1906–1918
Born in Newry, County Down into a Quaker family, he was the son of Henry Barcroft DL and Anna Richardson Malcomson of The Glen, Newry - a property purchased for his parents by his mother's uncle, John Grubb Richardson and adjoining his own estate in Bessbrook.
In the 19th century, three canals were constructed, using the lough to link various ports and cities: the Lagan Navigation provided a link from the city of Belfast, the Newry Canal linked to the port of Newry, and the Ulster Canal led to the Lough Erne navigations, providing a navigable inland route via the River Shannon to Limerick, Dublin and Waterford.
Irish commander Féilim Ó Néill, on his march from Newry to Armagh in 1641, ordered Mulmory MacDonell "... to kill all the English and Scots within the parishes of Mullebrack, Logilly and Kilcluney".
Irish commander Féilim Ó Néill, on his march from Newry to Armagh in 1641, ordered Mulmory MacDonell "... to kill all the English and Scots within the parishes of Mullebrack, Logilly and Kilcluney".
The granite monument in the forefront of the picture was erected in honour of local man Terence Bannon, who, on June 1, 2003, became the first citizen of Newry to conquer Mount Everest.
However it retained a strong presence in certain localities, notably the Lower Falls, Andersonstown, Turf Lodge and the Markets areas of Belfast, along with a big presence in Derry but particularly Free Derry in the Bogside area as well as Newry and South Down.
02 Dec 2008: Sinn Féin minister Conor Murphy claimed to have been told by the Police Service of Northern Ireland of a recent attempt on his life by the OV in the Newry area.
Poyntzpass, a small village situated between Portadown and Newry, Northern Ireland
The school takes its name from the two boys' Grammar schools in Newry, Abbey CBS and St Colman's College.
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St. Colman's Abbey Christian Brothers' Primary Elementary School (Irish: Bunscoil Cholmáin na Mainistreach) is a Christian Brothers' school located in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Knox was the eldest son in a family connected to the Protestant Irish peerage: his father John Henry Knox, Tory MP for Newry, was a younger son of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly.