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The Bulletin
Fix this text“The Bulletin,” Vol. 69—No. 3550
Fix this textWednesday, February 25, 1948
Fix this textPrice 6d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
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Fix this textIN “TYRONE AMONG THE BUSHES” STANDS ONCE-PROUD BENBURB
Fix this textnrHE name “Tyrone” in Irish means “the Land of Owen,” and
Fix this textthe Owen, of course, was that almost mythical Owen O’Neill
Fix this textwho founded what was to become perhaps the greatest name in
Fix this textIrish history. It was a later O’Neill, the sixteenth-century Shane,
Fix this textwho built his castle at Benburb, down in the south of Tyrone, and
Fix this textit was to this ancient castle that he returned after his famous visit
Fix this textto Queen Elizabeth, when he and his shaggy saffron-kilted men
Fix this textwere the talk of London for weeks. After the Plantation came Sir
Fix this textRichard Wingfield, later Lord Powerscourt, who built on the Proud
Fix this textPeak of Benburb the fortified mansion, pictured above, perched
Fix this texthigh on its rock above the tumbling loveliness of the Blackwater
Fix this textRiver. In Ireland’s' ancient history Benburb is identified with what
Fix this textwas called Portrigh, the Landing Place of the King, mentioned in
Fix this textthe “Annals of the Masters” as the place where a high king of
Fix this textIreland was slain by a king of Ulster in the year 365. In modern
Fix this texttimes Benburb has become the centre from which the country’s
Fix this textfinest anglixjg may be enjoyed. The nearby Blackwater River has
Fix this texta magnificent series of pools and waterfalls, and to them after the
Fix this textAugust floods come the celebrated Lough Neagh dollaghan, a trout
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Fix this textGREAT WESTERN Sparkling Wines
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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