* 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

Justin Huntly McCarthy ( 1859 – 1936 ) ( Member of Parliament for Newry ) published prose translations of 466 quatrains in 1889.

* February 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing 9 officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

These included the Miami Showband killings of 31 July 1975 – when three members of the popular showband from the Republic of Ireland were killed having been stopped at a fake British Army checkpoint outside of Newry in County Down.

At Portadown railway station the line went in four directions – one went northeast toward Belfast, one northwest toward Dungannon, one southwest to Armagh and one southeast toward Newry and onward to Dublin.

* Newry and Mourne District Council – Kilfeaghan

* John Moore ( MP for Newry ) ( 1756 – 1834 ), Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who represented the constituency of Newry

** Francis Jack Needham, Viscount Newry ( 1815 – 1851 )

* John Grubb Richardson ( 1813 – 1891 ), major Irish industrialist who founded the model village of Bessbrook near Newry

** Belfast / Newry, October 1971 – February 1972

It lies about three miles ( 5 km ) northwest of Newry and near the main Dublin – Belfast road and Dublin-Belfast railway line.

Also after beating Newry City 1 – 0 at Mournview Park on 28 February 2009, Portadown became the first intermediate club to win the Irish League Cup.

More departures followed the following summer and despite an encouraging start to the 2000 – 01 season, United's frailties caught up with them and Nigel Best was sacked after an unacceptable run of results in December 2000, cumulating with a 5 – 2 defeat to Newry Town.

Again, Newry were drawn away in the first leg, coming away with a respectable 2 – 0 defeat to the German professionals.

In 2008 – 09, Portadown became the first intermediate team to reach the final, and subsequently became the first intermediate team to win the cup after defeating Newry City 1 – 0.

The 2008 – 09 final between Newry City and Portadown was the first to be played outside Belfast, with Mourneview Park, Lurgan hosting a 1 – 0 win for the Ports.

Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier ( 11 June 1846 – 25 February 1901 ), commonly known as L. N. F.

William " Willie " Patrick Maley ( 25 April 1868 – 2 April 1958 ) born Newry, County Down, Ireland was a famous Scottish football coach and former player, the first manager of Celtic Football Club and one of the most successful managers in Scottish football history.

Sir William Siemens ( 1823 – 83 ) was briefly a Director and Siemens Bros. of London were appointed electrical engineers to the company, their representative being Dr Edward Hopkinson, who later went on to work on the Bessbrook and Newry Tramway and the City & South London Railway.

* link = R173 road ( Ireland ) – ( N1 / N52 near Dundalk ) – ( R175 ) – Carlingford ( R176 ) – Omeath – ( becomes B79 road into Newry )

On March 26, 1885, the 150 to 200 Métis and Aboriginal warriors under the command of Gabriel Dumont defeated a combined group of 90 Prince Albert Volunteers and North-West Mounted Police led by their superintendent Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier at Duck Lake, outside Batoche.

The Mid-Ulster Brigade was also responsible for the Miami Showband ambush, in which three members of the popular Irish cabaret band The Miami Showband were shot dead at a bogus military vehicle checkpoint outside Newry by gunmen dressed in British Army uniforms.

* Downpatrick is situated at the junction of the A7 ( Downpatrick to Saintfield and Belfast ) road, the A25 ( Downpatrick to Newry and Dublin ) road and the A2 coast road.

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.

A 2012 TV episode, ' Sins and Secrets: Newry ', told the story of a series of murders that happened at a local B & B in 2003.

Newry is located at ( 40. 393223 ,-78. 435085 ).

Prior to 1969, most local Roman Catholics worshipped at St. Patrick's in Newry, an Irish-founded parish about away.

The last nearby earthquake had its epicenter in Newry, South Carolina, and occurred at 7: 42 am EDT on May 19, 1971.

A statue to Mitchel was also erected by the people of Newry, and is located at John Mitchel Place, an extension of Newry's main street, Hill Street.

He was educated in Newry by Irish Christian Brothers at Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School and at St Colman's College, Newry, and in 1914 he joined the Irish Volunteers.

The sailing ship Newry, with 400 passengers bound from Warrenpoint to Québec, was wrecked at Porth Orion in 1880.

This remark more especially applies when the station from which the train starts is like that of the Newry and Armagh line at Armagh, which, as at present arranged, is perfectly unsuited for dealing with long passenger trains.

In the present instance, the train, owing to its length, had to be loaded on the main line partly at the up platform and partly at the down platform, and afterwards by a series of shunts to be moved on to the Newry and Armagh Line ..

Activity declined greatly after Gerry Fitt, then the party's sole Stormont MP, left the party to form the Republican Labour Party in 1964, with the party's last known contest being two seats on Newry and Mourne District Council at the 1973 local elections.

In the early 1590s, English government in Ulster took the form of a Provincial Presidency, to be headed by the colonist, Henry Bagenal who lived at Newry.

In May 1600 the English achieved a strategic breakthrough, when Sir Henry Dowcra, at the head of a considerable army, took up a position in O ' Neill's rear at Derry ; meanwhile, the new lord deputy, Sir Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy ( a protégé of Essex ), marched in support from Westmeath to Newry, compelling O ' Neill to retire to Armagh.

* The city of Newry in the south of the county contains St Patrick's ( Church of Ireland, 1578 ), overlooking the city centre from Church street, on the east side of the city, which is considered to be Ireland's first ever Protestant church.

The majority of Newry's businesses are found along the main north-south road, Old Route 220: just north of the town, a storage company and a small motor vehicles store ; within Newry, several crafts shops and an electronics repair store ; and immediately to the south, the largest business in the town, Leighty's, which comprises a convenience store, a computer systems, parts, and repair store, a golf driving range, a hunting outfitter, a flea market, a flower store, and a bathroom and kitchen remodeling store.

He then went south by way of the Moiry Pass ; called " Innermallan "/" Enderwillane "/ Imberdiolan " in contemporary accounts, between Newry and Dundalk.

The Quinns were prosperous merchants in Newry, County Down, but were forced to move south to Dublin in the 1930s where Quinn's father built a successful business career.

It runs from Belfast via Lisburn and Banbridge to the border with the Republic of Ireland south of Newry, from where the road continues to Dublin, becoming the N1 road and M1 motorway.

According to the 2001 Census, 167, 487 people ( 10. 4 % of the population ) had " some knowledge of Irish " with the highest concentrations of Irish speakers found in Belfast, Derry, Newry and south Armagh, central Tyrone ( between Dungannon and Omagh ), and southern County Londonderry ( near Maghera ).

The route heads north via Drogheda and Dundalk to the Northern Irish border just south of Newry in County Armagh, where it joins the A1 road and further on, the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland.

There is a campaign to boost tourism by reopening the Ulster Canal in a scheme which would eventually allow boats to travel from towns in Northern Ireland, such as Newry, by way of Monaghan to places as far south as Limerick, as well as Dublin.

In addition to this, Translink also provides rail services between Belfast and Derry to the north and Newry to the south, continuing across the border, which is part of the fast Enterprise service between Belfast and Dublin.

Near Portadown it connects with the now disused Newry Canal, which once gave access south to the Irish Sea.

After some resistance near Newry the Jacobites withdrew to the south bank of the River Boyne, where they took up a defensive position at the village of Oldbridge, near Drogheda.

Lake Keowee's furthest extent to the south brings it close to the city of Seneca, with the old mill town of Newry actually on it.

This feature is situated on the south facing gable on a building on Newry Street.

Whether or not the usefulness of a navigable route from the inland lake of Lough Neagh to Carlingford Lough, on the coast to the south of Lough Neagh was considered before the 1640s is unknown, but during Oliver Cromwell's campaign in Ireland at that time, a survey of the area was made, and Colonel Monk ordered that a navigable trench from Portadown to Newry should be cut.

As the Lower Bann drains Lough Neagh north into the Atlantic Ocean and the Newry Canal ( with a bit of the Upper Bann ) connects it south to the Irish Sea, the whole system taken as a whole can be conceived speculatively and imaginatively to cut off Counties Down and Antrim as an island separate from the rest of Ireland.