Qualla: Newry https://qualla.com/newry en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Newry https://qualla.com/newry Newry: Introduction https://qualla.com/newry/ The Irish name says it all. An tIúr, the yew tree. Long form, Iúr Cinn Trá, the yew tree at the head of the strand. Newry was a place before it was a town. A tree on a sea-shore, where the Cooley Mountains rise across the lough and a salt tide meets the mouth of the Clanrye River. A Cistercian abbey was planted here in 1144, on land that Saint Patrick is said to have visited a few centuries before, and the town that grew up around it spent the next eight hundred years being burned, rebuilt, dredged, canalled, partitioned, bombed, and finally turned, improbably, into one of the great cross-border shopping destinations in the European Union.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/k/newry-wp/gcek-newry-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Newry: Bronze Age To Bagenal https://qualla.com/newry/ People have lived in the Newry valley for thousands of years. Three miles south of the modern city sits Clontygorra Court Cairn, where excavations turned up pot sherds, scrapers, a polished axe, and the cremated remains of a single ancient inhabitant. From the Bronze Age came the...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/k/newry-wp/gcek-newry-bronze-age-to-bagenal.mp3 0:06 2 full Newry: The Canal That Made The Port https://qualla.com/newry/ Everything changed in 1742. The Newry Canal opened that year, twenty miles north to the Bann at Portadown and onward to Lough Neagh, the first true summit-level canal in Ireland or Great Britain. By 1769 a separate ship canal pushed three and a half miles further south to the dee...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/k/newry-wp/gcek-newry-the-canal-that-made-the-port.mp3 0:06 3 full Newry: Two Cathedrals, Two Communities https://qualla.com/newry/ Newry is one of only a handful of cities to straddle two counties. The Clanrye River runs through the centre; its western bank lies in County Armagh, its eastern in County Down. Newry Town Hall, built across the river itself, sits on the historic boundary between them. The Cathol...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/k/newry-wp/gcek-newry-two-cathedrals-two-communities.mp3 0:06 4 full Newry: Eighty Per Cent https://qualla.com/newry/ When Ireland was partitioned in 1921, Newry ended up on the northern side of the new border, but with one of the largest Catholic majorities in Northern Ireland. Around eighty per cent of the population identified as Catholic or Irish nationalist, a proportion too large to gerrym...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/k/newry-wp/gcek-newry-eighty-per-cent.mp3 0:06 5 full Newry: The Newry Effect https://qualla.com/newry/ City status arrived in 2002 with the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Newry was one of two Northern Ireland towns elevated that year, alongside the largely Protestant Lisburn, in what was widely seen as a balanced gesture. Six years later, the world financial crisis tipped the eur...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/k/newry-wp/gcek-newry-the-newry-effect.mp3 0:06 6 full Newry: Yew Tree At The Head Of The Strand https://qualla.com/newry/ The city has produced a remarkable cluster of public figures: the goalkeeper Pat Jennings, the football manager Willie Maley, the GAA founder Michael Cusack, the filmmaker Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon, Pulitzer-winning poet Paul Muldoon, and the 19th-century Irish patriot John Mi...

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