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At the beginning of my interview with Doreen McBride, he tells me he talks too much.
It’s music to the ears of someone who writes articles on models that can involve more than 2000 words.
Fortunately, Doreen is a “talker,” much of what she says deserves to be written; you wouldn’t expect anything less from a prolific editor and narrator specializing in fables about the days spent in Ulster.
Doreen said: “Writing about forklore won’t make you a fortune, but I think it’s incredibly vital to perceive it. If it doesn’t break, it will disappear. “
The former biology instructor at Ashfield, Wallace and Dromore High liked storytelling when he sent the Department of Education to spend a year at the Ulster Museum of Transportation and Folklore.
While he was there, he began to write his stories.
She said, “They gave me a bullet there. I had my head filled with folklore, I wrote full-time then in 1991.
“I lost count of the number of eBooks I wrote. My bestseller is sold out now; it’s an absolutely in bad taste e-book about the language of Northern Ireland, a bit of fun.
“When I was at Ulster Transport, I found out I was a storyteller. It’s anything I didn’t know I was doing.
“When I was at school at the end of class, if everything was in order, I would tell them a horrible story, anything that would slow them down from their lunch.
“When I got to the folk museum, I was running with Linda Ballard, who is a storyteller, and she found out that I also had a gift for storytelling.
“We told ghost stories in combination on Halloween, it grew from there. I was given to move to the United States, New Zealand and Canada in my language.
Doreen’s new talks about his hometown, Banbridge, where he moved from east Belfast in 1975.
She said: “I would never have imagined that one of the first two people to split the atom, Ernest Walton, went to school in Banbridge, as did FE McWilliam, the son of a local physician and world famous sculptor.
“Who would have had any idea that the guy who discovered the Northwest Passage to Canada’s most sensible, Captain Crozier, was born in Church Square?
“His old space is in front of a statue erected to commemorate his and the space is marked with a blue plaque.
“Daniel Radcliffe’s grandfather (Harry Potter) had a bakery on Dromore Street and made a cake for my neighbor, Margaret Graham.
“All this leads to — would I live in Belfast again?
“Belfast is a lovely city, I enjoyed living there and the big smoke has some attractions, but I am passing by to live there again.
“I learned to love Banbridge and his people, and I did what Walter McCabe, McCabe and Baird’s real estate agent, said he was doing most of the landslides, that is, buying a grave.
“They don’t aim to leave until their time is running out on earth and neither do I. “
Banbridge is a city of planters founded through Moyses Hill (sometimes written as Moses Hill), who was a soldier in the Elizabethan Wars (1693–03).
He is the lieutenant leader of Elizabeth I’s army leader, Sir Arthur Chichester.
Like his boss, Hill won land as a compliment for his service to the queen.
The name Marquis of Downshire was then given to his descendants.
Another attractive fact Doreen includes in the e-book is that Banbridge was the only rural city in Ireland that had manufactured a plane in World War II.
In 1942, Miles Aircraft, a Reading-based company, won an application to produce a reconnaissance aircraft.
Due to the fact that England was being bombed by the Germans, they chose to move production of the aircraft to Banbridge peacefully.
Doreen said: “It was built in a local linen factory. It was incredibly difficult to build a plane in a linen factory because there were all those poles on the roof of the looms.
“They couldn’t screw it there, so they had to take it back to the maze to screw it and make a verification flight. “
In his book, he recounts how Banbridge came here to have the first overflight bridge in Europe that gave the city an exclusive configuration: “In the 1830s, the design of the stagecoaches changed. They were heavier and the horses struggled to pull them on the steep hill. in the middle of town.
Banbridge was in danger of being avoided, so His Lord Wills Hill (the first Marquis of Downshire) hired men to do what is called a cut on the hill.
“In other words, she came down the hill to make her more accessible to the stagecoaches.
“They cut it two hundred meters long and 15 feet deep, and the excavation made a bridge through an overpass between Scarva and Rathfriland streets. An area was left on each side of the bridge so that the general business could continue.
The excavation, known locally as ‘The Cut’ and is considered the first air bridge in Europe, ended in 1834 and charged 19,000 euros.
“A woman used to sell apples on the deck and have her replacement in her pocket, so locally it’s called Jingler’s Bridge. Officially, it’s the Downshire Bridge in honor of the Marquis who built it.
“In 1885 the original viaduct was replaced by a new one, basically made up of blue stone and granite.
The walls of the parapet were finished with 4 fuel lamps, which no longer exist.
“The old bridge was only 23 feet wide, the new one still used was more convenient than 47 feet. It will have to have been well built as it has been hit several times by giant trucks and buses and is still standing.
Banbridge’s story, that is, the domain where she lives, close to a Celtic rath, has led her to enroll in the Banbridge Historical Society and has since published several history books.
She said: “It prevents me from dying of boredom, I know other very good people and I have attractive experiences.
“Occasionally, buy a book, then what else do you want?”
In her book, Doreen tells the story of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, an Irish naval officer who set out with the explorer Sir John Franklin to cross the last undiminished segment of the Northwest Passage.
She said: “Captain Francis Crozier was born in Church Square.
“He arrived dressed as a naval officer, not dressed for the Arctic.
“He at the time he was in command, when the captain died, he took over, his ship got stuck in the ice and they had to abandon ship.
“They discovered their ship a few years ago, with bones and things like that.
“There are two minds about it, one is that he died, the other that went with the Eskimos.
On the proposal of physicist Ernest Walton, she said, “Your daughter Marion was at school with me.
“He was part of his studies in Banbridge. He was the first user to see the division of the atom.
Together with his Cambridge spouse, John Cockcroft, they invented a particle accelerator now called the Cockcroft-Walton generator.
She said: “Walton arrived early in the morning. With experience, he knew that if he crawled on his hands and knees and looked inside the got herera, he would see if they had divided the atom. So he was the first one in Look at him.
In her new e-book about Banbridge, prolific Doreen McBride explores the history of this exclusive city, which contains facts, stories and anecdotes.
Banbridge’s position, where ancient roads cross the decline of the Bann River, has resulted in a cross-pollination of ideas, creativity and influence, with prominent figures from the world of literature, art, music, the linen industry, medical sciences, atomic energy, tractors, air. -Design of ships and SAS related to the neighborhood.
Doreen’s new e-book invites Ballievey readers along the Lower Bann to observe ancient Celtic sites, the remains of former generators and a World War II aircraft factory.
Also look at Banbridge’s annotated names.
Doreen said: “It’s a thriving and fashionable city, rich in history and culture, surrounded by beautiful landscapes that has provided an iconic location for the acclaimed TV series Game of Thrones around the world.
“This is the setting for the famous popular song ‘The Down County Star’, which The First Air Bridge in Europe and an ancient church founded through St. Patrick himself. “
Doreen McBride is Press Secretary of the Banbridge Historical Society and has held positions on the Executive Committee of the Ulster Federation of Local Studies.
She was president of the Association of Education Councils and Libraries of Northern Ireland and spent a year at the Ulster Museum of Transport and Folklore as an adscribed professor.
He has books through Longmans, Poolbeg Press, The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, BQ Publications, Adare Press and The History Press Ireland. He lives in Banbridge.
Doreen has two sons and two grandchildren: “My son lives 20 minutes walk from me and my daughter lives in Hawaii, you couldn’t have more chalk and cheese than that.
“It rains all the time in Hawaii, but they never tell you. He lives on the island with the volcano at the top.
“If you go into the jungle, you’re chased by wild boars, and it’s hard for cockroaches to stay away. It’s not for me, but it turns out he likes it there. “
Banbridge: The Star Of County Down is through History Press and costs £14. 99