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Stand and deliver! The story of two highwaymen 

Newry and Mourne Museum has arranged tours of the Castle and the galleries and bread making demonstrations, in keeping with the rich heritage of the building.

As part in Iúr Cinn Fleadh, the annual traditional Irish music and community festival in Newry, Newry and Mourne Museum will host guest musicians over the Bank Holiday weekend

To mark the 80^th anniversary of the D-Day landings, two service uniforms worn by local men during World War Two, have now gone on display in Newry and Mourne Museum.

In the latest blog in our series about the Gaol, Down County Museum looks at how the Old Gaol was used after the New Gaol was built in Downpatrick

Lecture. ‘Irish Regiments & 'The Longest Day'  at Newry and Mourne Museum

Arts and crafts for children and footage of old Newry

Brian M. Walker, Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, explores the significance of a photograph taken of James Craig, the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and the members of Newry Urban District Council at Newry Town Hall in 1927

The latest blog in Down County Museum's series about the Old Gaol looks at the treatment of women who were imprisoned here.

Newry Drama Festival celebrates its 75^th anniversary this year and Joanne Cummins, Collections Officer at Newry and Mourne Museum, briefly charts the Festival’s development over the decades.

In the latest blog in our series about the Gaol, Down County Museum looks at the New Gaol, and describes how it was meant to improve on conditions experienced in the Old Gaol.

Continuing Down County Museum's blog series on our past as the county gaol, Museum Assistant Pat Fox reveals some of the stories of the prisoners who were transported to Australia, many of whom never returned to Ireland.