Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh

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Outside Keenan’s Bar, an official Northern Ireland tourist information sign hangs which serves as the “centre point” for Walsh’s walking tours. As you went along, you got to know who was who. The paratroopers were obviously the ones with the red hats. So if they were in town you were afraid to go outside the door because they were the worst. They would literally batter you if they got you on your own. That might be your football for the evening and all of a sudden you had to go beg, borrow or steal to try and get a new one to continue on the training session.

Saint Benignus of Armagh, (died 467), first rector of the Cathedral School of Armagh and Bishop of Armagh John McCreesh, American politician who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1935 to 1958 was born in Armagh County in 1881. [31] Paul Muldoon (1951– ), born in County Armagh, poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize I suddenly got a promotion and was going to work in a helicopter. I thought, ‘will I die here?’ — Alan Mains There’s no way in 1986 you could have foreseen where we are now because it was helicopters, it was the army, it was horrible, people were getting killed.Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1759–1822), educated in The Royal School, Armagh. British Foreign Secretary, Secretary for War, Leader of the United Kingdom House of Commons and Chief Secretary for Ireland The South Armagh Brigade considered themselves to be the elite of the IRA – and the sniper was very much part of the psych.” Armagh Public Library on Abbey Street in Armagh City, especially rich in 17th and 18th century English books, including Dean Jonathan Swift's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections

The Armagh County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Armagh GAA organises Gaelic games in the county.Your Place And Mine – Armagh -". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015 . Retrieved 15 March 2018. Sniper at Work” road signs with silhouettes of gunmen are gone and an occasional police car patrols a town where soldiers and police only ever travelled by helicopter for fear of being blown up by covert bombs. Sir William Olpherts (1822–1902), born in County Armagh, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross But I will always say this: a lot of the people I met in south Armagh, to this day, I’m still very friendly with.”