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Category: The 1950s

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Horses, the Moy Fair and a Greek tragedy

Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Article adapted from Dungannon Observer.

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Benburb Boys v Moy Boys Cricket Match 1950

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Benburb Monster Sports 1950

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Butterfly

True story is told of a man at Benburb Priory who fired an air rifle in the direction of a butterfly, missed and killed a woman who was sitting talking behind a bush unseen to him. Totally accidental and unbelievably tragic.

A short extract from the story as it appeared in the Dungannon Observer in 1955

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Tomás Ó Fiaich

I had no idea who Father Fee was when I. read about him leaving Clonfeacle Parish in 1953. I was shocked to learn later that he would become Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich. Apparently he could sing a song or two. There's now a Memorial Library dedicated to him in Armagh.

Extracted in part from an article in the Dungannon Observer in 1953

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John Orr

Interesting how a strange obelisk shaped headstone in a graveyard can grab your attention and how you can then link it to an article in the Tyrone Courier in the 1950s. I ended up learning that rugby legends like Patrick Lambie and Gordon Brown could trace their lineage back to John Orr a wee Benburb guy who owned a series of megastores in South Africa away back in the early part of the 20th century!
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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!
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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.
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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
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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!
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  • Fancy Dress Parade 1967
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