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Month: Jun 2023

Blanks

So often a football team has no luck in front of goal. Players off form, woodwork gets in the way, goalkeepers suddenly become world class. Well for Benburb Eoghan Read their manager sent his marksmen out at half time to practice shooting as they had fired blanks in the first half. That's life at the bottom!
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 28th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Quakers

I grew up around three miles from this Quaker church and its graveyard and had to look where it was on Google Maps to find its location. What a secret place this turned out to be. As a purveyor of all the graveyards in the area now I have to say this one is the one I would love to haunt when I die! So peaceful with birdsong everywhere. Or maybe I just caught it on a beautiful summer's day!
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 24th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Graves

I was always wary about walking into unfamiliar graveyards and Clonfeacle outside Blackwatertown was a case of the unknown to me. I wanted to see the graves of some of the people I had read about in the books I have been compiling. The sad story of Margaret Casey who died trying to sae her son, the Cromie girls who drowned in a bad road accident. Michael Collins who was killed in New York. I was at Collegeland too - to pay respects to Paul Mills, and to see the graves of the Mackle children and young Dermot McNeice.
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 23rd Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Festival Week

The locals who started up Festival Week need a huge round of applause for being forerunners for community action in the days before the Troubles started and in an area that would be right at the centre of the Murder Triangle as it later became known. There was no hint of division in the advertised 1968 programme as both sides and all ages shared in the craic that was to be had during this Festival Week.
davidacheson7 The 1960s Leave a comment 21st Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Rev. J.J. Jennings

Very few people in Moy Presbyterian church have heard of Rev. J.J. Jennings who ministered in Moy for around six months between Rev McMillan and Rev Faulkner in the mid 1950s. So I did a little research on him, contacted his son and was pretty amazed at some of the things I learned about his father and ancestors. Research took me to New Brunswick in Canada and Derry in Northern Ireland! And to hymns like There is a green hill and Once in Royal David's City
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 20th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd was the Ronan O'Gara of Irish Rugby a full 100 years earlier. Some call him Ireland's greatest out half. Certainly the most prodigious schoolboy outside half who with his Portora Royal School classmates dominated schoolboy rugby at the time. Played for Ireland almost straight out of school and  would later captained them 11 times. He wasn't bad at cricket either. And all this from a wee boy who grew up in Moy!
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 18th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute
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  • The book has finally arrived!
  • Get your cameras out!
  • Fancy Dress Parade 1967
  • Dog Show at Moy Festival Week 1968
  • Talk on Charlemont and its fort by James Kane at Benburb Priory on 25th September at 8.00pm
  • Moy Tir-na-nOg Team 1960
  • Contents – Page 3 of Book 1
  • Contents – Page 2 of Book 1
  • Contents – Page 1 Book 1
  • Two new books coming out for Christmas
  • Moy Fire Tragedy Part 1
  • The Moy Fire Tragedy Part 2
  • Benburb Priory opened
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Annual Soiree 1884
  • Daffodil Sale in 1928
  • Tena 100
  • Rain stopped play
  • The Jewel in the Crown
  • John Edmund Malone Watson M.C.
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