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Crocknacrieve, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

Irish Newspaper Articles  - The Early Days & Workers (Pre-1965)

Scotland Newspaper Articles

New Zealand Newspaper Articles (Pre-1965)

Australia Newspaper Articles

Bright Words - A Faith Mission Publication

County Map of Ireland

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The FIRST Convention
Held in 1901 at CROCKNACRIEVE
County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

PROPERTY OWNER & ADDRESS:
Mrs. Warren Loane
Crocknacrieve
Ballinamallard
Enniskillen, N. Ireland
Telephone:  011-44-1365  32 25 51

DIRECTIONS:
From the town of Enniskillen,  take Road A32 to Omagh/Irvinestown.
Go just over 2 miles.
Turn right on Road B46 to Ballinamallard for 1.3 miles.
Off the road on the left will be a small house with a private drive leading past it.
This drive leads to Crocknacrieve.

NOTE:   It is highly recommended that arrangements be made by telephone or letter with the present owner before attempting to visit this former convention site.  The owner is NOT a 2x2.

See Photographs of Crocknacrieve in the TTT PHOTO GALLERY

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READ ALL ABOUT IT - WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

 Newspaper Articles Before 1965

The Early Days, Workers, Meetings & Conventions

Articles in order by date

History of the Impartial Reporter Newspaper in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

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PHOTO GALLERY of Motherwell Town Hall
1893 Motherwell Times, Motherwell, Scotland
1893, Jan   7 - Rev. John M'Neill Will Preach at Town Hall at Motherwell
1893, Jan 14 - Rev. John M'Neill in Motherwell

1897, May 1 - New York Times - Crowd Hears Dr. M'Neill - Known as "the Scottish Spurgeon," and is a Veritable Giant in the Pulpit
1897, May 9 - New York Times - Travels of Evangelist Rev. John McNeill, the Scot, Has Been All Over the Habitable Globe

Book Re:  Rev. John (Jack) McNeill
Rev John McNeill: His Life and Work
By Alexander Gammie, Pickering & Inglis, London, GB, UK, 1933

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1895 - 1910 - Bright Words a Faith Mission Publication.

EXCERPTS FROM BRIGHT WORDS:

August  15, 1895, p. 185
November 15, 1895, p. 267 - 1897 - Annual Staff of Workers List
November 16, 1896, p. 276 - 1896 - Annual Staff of Workers List

1897
February 15, 1897, p. 39
May 15, 1897, p.113
June 15, 1897, p. 146
Nov. 15, 1897, p. 266
November, 1897, p. 259 - 1897 - Annual Staff of Workers List
December 15, 1897, p. 277

1898
April 15, 1898, p. 91-2
May 16, 1898, p. 116
June - July, 1898, pgs. 138-140
August 15, 1898, p 169 - First Time shown as Superintendent of S. Ireland
October 15, 1898, p. 219
November - December, 1898, p. 261 - 1898 - Annual Staff of Workers List

1899
February thru December, 1899- Irvine not shown on Location of Pilgrims List
November – December 1899, p. 257 - 1899 - Annual Staff of Workers List

1900
January thru December, 1900 - Irvine not shown on Location of Pilgrims List
March 1900, pgs. 56-57
November-December, 1900, p. 252, 273-274 - 1900 - Annual Staff of Workers List -LAST time Irvine's name shown.
PHOTO OF:  November-December, 1900, p. 273-274

1901
January, 1901, p. 7 - Location of Pilgrims List - First time Wm Irvine's name NOT shown.
August, 1901, p. 175-6
September 1901, p. 212
November, 1901, p. 282 - 1901 - Annual Staff of Workers List

1902
November, 1902, p. 247 - 1902 - Annual Staff of Workers List
May 1903, p. 102

1903
November 1903, p. 246 - 1903 - Annual Staff of Workers List
December 1903, p. 275

1904-05
January 1904, p. 10
November, 1904, p. 252 - 1904 - Annual Staff of Workers List
November, 1905, p. 247 - 1905 - Annual Staff of Workers List

June, 1950, p. 117 - Death of Robert Todd

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1900 Kings County Chronicle, now called Offaly County, Ireland
1900, April 12 - Religious Intolerance in North Tipperary
1900, April 19 - Religious Intolerance in North Tipperary - Letter to the Editor
1900, April 26 - Religious Intolerance in North Tipperary - Letter to the Editor

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1991, Mar 14 - Letter certifying authenticity of accounts printed in Impartial Reporter
        By Mervyn Dane, Editor, Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal

PHOTO GALLERY of Impartial Reporter

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The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1903, Jan 15,  Pg 8 - The Pilgrims or Tramps - Preaching the Terrors of Hell!
1903, Jan 22,  Pg 8 - The Pilgrims or Tramps - A Hot Time for Enniskillen.
1903, Jan 29,  Pg 6 - The Pilgrims or Tramps - Imagine they are Inspired.

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The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1904, June 2,  Pg 8 - The Tramp Pilgrims - Dip Dupes in the Sea
1904, June 9,  Pg ? - More About the Tramps - The Drums and Mr. E. Cooney

The Newtownards Chronicle, Newtownards, County Down, N. Ireland
1904, May 28,  Pg 3 -  Tramp Preachers in Newtownards
1904, June    4, Pg 3 -  The Vagrant "Apostle" in Newtownards
1904, June  11, Pg 3-   The Vagrant "Apostle" in Newtownards

1904 Crocknacrieve Convention:
The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1904, Sept 29, Pg 8 - The Pilgrim Tramps - The Rite of Baptism
1904, Oct    6, Pg 5 - The Tramps - Another Dipping
1904, Oct  13, Pg 8 - With the Tramps - Last Sunday's Experience
1904, Oct  13, Pg 8 - The Tramps - Change in their Views - 1st Article
1904, Oct  20, Pg 8 - The Tramps - Change in their Views - 2nd Article
1904, Oct  20, Pg 8 - Another Day's Dipping - At Ballinamallard River
1904, Oct  27, Pg 5 - The Tramps - Change in their Views - 3rd Article
1904, Oct  27, Pg 5 - The Dipping of Tramps - In River at Ballinamallard

1904, Nov   3, Pg 8 - The Tramp Crusade - May Enniskillen Be Saved!
1904, Nov 10, Pg 5 - What is Baptism? Information for the Tramps
1904, Dec  15, Pg ? - The Cooneyites - Is Christ Disrespected?

NOTE:   There were no conventions held at Crocknacrieve for the years 1905 and 1906. 

The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1905, Feb 16,  Pg ? - Sunday With The Pilgrims - Scenes at Ballinamallard

The Irish Presbyterian:
1905,  Mar ,    Pg 38 -  A New Sect by Scrutator

The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1905, Mar 23,  Pg 7 - The Tramps or Pilgrims - A Presbyterian Comment

Kilsyth Chronicle, Kilsyth, Scotland
1905, May  5,  Pg 3 -  Baptisms in Banton Loch

June 10, 1906 - Sunday Independent

The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1906, June 21,  Pg 3 - Irish Tramp Preachers - A Mission in Suffolk

Lloyd's Weekly News
December 23, 1906 -A Leader of the Sect

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1907  The Fermanagh Times, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland 
(no longer in business - rival newspaper of the Impartial Reporter during the 1890s and early 1900s)

1907, Mar 14, Pg 2 - Correspondence: The Pilgrims at Ballycassidy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, Mar 21, Pg 7 - Correspondence: The Pilgrims at Ballycassidy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, Mar 28, Pg ? - Correspondence: The Pilgrims at Ballycassidy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, Apr   4, Pg 6 - Correspondence: The Pilgrims at Ballycassidy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, Apr 11, Pg 7 - Correspondence: The Pilgrims at Ballycassidy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, Apr 18, Pg 7 - Correspondence: The Pilgrims at Ballycassidy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, Apr 25, Pg 7 - Correspondence: The Pilgrims at Ballycassidy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, May 2,  Pg 3 - Correspondence: The Pilgrim Controversy-Question of Infant Baptism
1907, May 9 -            (no article printed)
May 16, 1907, Pg 2 - Correspondence: The Pilgrim Controversy-Question of Infant Baptism
May 23, 1907, Pg 3 - Correspondence: The Pilgrim Controversy-Question of Infant Baptism
May 30, 1907, Pg 6 - Correspondence: The Pilgrim Controversy-Question of Infant Baptism
June   6, 1907, Pg 7 - Correspondence: The Pilgrim Controversy-Question of Infant Baptism
June 13, 1907, Pg 6 - Correspondence: The Pilgrim Controversy-Question of Infant Baptism
June 20, 1907, Pg ? - Correspondence: The Pilgrim Controversy-Question of Infant Baptism
                                (Ended with:   "This controversy is now closed.")

1907 Crocknacrieve Convention
The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1907, July 18, Pg 8 - Pilgrim Convention - At Crocknacrieve
1907, July 25, Pg 8 - The Pilgrim Convention - 2,000 Saints Attend
1907, Aug   1, Pg 5 - The Pilgrim Convention - Evangelist Interrupt a Meeting
1907, Oct   3, Pg 8 - Anti-Tramp Campaign - Scenes in Enniskillen Townhall

1907, July pp. 102-103 - New Zealand Treasury
1907, January 6 Pp. 6-7 The Freethinker - Wm D. Wilson fined for wrecking "Tramp" mission hall
1907, May 26 Pg 328 The Freethinker - Cooneyite Baptism

1908, Sept   3, Pg5 - The Tramps Again - Strange Scene at Funeral
1908, Sept   3, Pg 5 - More of What the Tramp Preachers Believe
1908, Sept 10, Pg 5 - The Tramps
1908, Oct  22,         -  Pilgrims Presence Resented - Week of Turmoil in Swords
1908, Oct  17, Pg 5 - The Irish Daily Independent: Week of Turmoil in Swords

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1909, Aug  4, Pg 3 - New York Times, NY: Crowds Await the Millennium
1909, Aug  6, Pg 4 - New York Times, NY: Cooneyites Await the Millennium

1909 Crocknacrieve Convention
1909, July 29,  Pg ? - The Tramps - Hold Annual Convention
1909, Aug   5, Pg 8 - The Tramp Preachers - Mr. Edward Cooney's Invective
1909, Aug 12, Pg 8 - The Tramps Convention - A New Phase!
1909, Aug 12, Pg 5 - The Tramps - By One Disinterested
1909, Aug 12, Pg 3 - The Commissariat at Crocknacrieve - Composition of Gathering
1909, Aug 19, Pg 8 - The Tramps Convention - Attendance Much Smaller

1909, Sept   2, Pg 8 - A Methodist Minister Replies To Questions Asked by Tramps
1909, Sept 04, Pg 1 - The Anglo-Celt (Cavan) - Enniskillen Tragedy - Well Known Solicitor's Death (RE: Alfred Cooney)
1909, Sept   9, Pg 8 - Letters to the Editor - The Tramp Preachers
1909, Sept 16, Pg ? - More Answers - By Methodist Minister
1909, Sept 23, Pg 8 - Letters to the Editor - The Tramp Preachers And The Methodist

1909, Oct    1, Pg ? - No Collections
1909, Oct    7, Pg 8 - The Tramp Preachers
1909, Nov   4, Pg ? - The Tramp Preachers - Letters to the Editor - WCT's Articles
1909, Nov   4, Pg ? - WCT's Reply - It was Not Immersion

1909, Sept   2, Pg 8 -  1st  Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Sept   9, Pg 5 -  2nd Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Sept 16, Pg 5 -  3rd Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Sept 23, Pg 5 -  4th Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Sept 30, Pg 2 -  5th Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Oct    7, Pg 8 -   6th Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Oct  14, Pg 5 -   7th Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Oct  21, Pg ? -   8th Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Oct  28, Pg 5 -   9th Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"
1909, Nov   4, Pg 5 - 10th Article: "The Jesus Way. Do They Follow it?"

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1910 Crocknacrieve Convention
1910, July 5, Pg 5 - The Irish Independent - Items of Interest - Cooneyite Convention - Wm Irvine Founder
1910, July 9, Pg 6 - The Nenagh Guardian -

1910, July   7, Pg ? - Tramp Preachers' Convention - Opens at Crocknacrieve
1910, July 14, Pg 5 - The Pilgrims - The Convention
1910, July 21, Pg 8 - The Pilgrim Convention - Mr. Cooney Arrives
1910, July 28, Pg ? - The Convention at Crocknacrieve - Outline of Proceedings
1910, Aug   4, Pg 5 - The Tramps' Convention - Silence of Mr. Irvine
1910, Aug 25, Pg 8 - The Tramp Preachers - Doctrines they Preach

East Anglis Times, Suffolk & Essex England
1910, Oct 18   - Apology of William Dennis Wilson for Slandering Charles T. Partridge

Ulster Towns Directory, 1910; Enniskillen, County Fermanagh
List of Post Office, Places of Worship, Public Institutions and Inhabitants

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1911 Crocknacrieve Convention
1911, July  6,  Pg ? - 1911 Convention at Crocknacrieve
1911, July 27, Pg ? - 1911 Convention at Crocknacrieve

1911, Convention at Lancaster, KY
1911 The Lancaster Record, Lancaster, Kentucky 

See Photo 1912 Lancaster, KY Conv.

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The People of London
1912, July 14, Pg 5 - The Cooneyites - Charges Against the Tramp Preachers

Newspapers in Napan, New Brunswick, Canada

1912, Feb 29    The High School Times - The Go-Preachers
1912, Mar 21   Slanderous Charges Against Evangelists Refuted by Evidence from England

The World (Chatham Newspapers - New Brunwick, Canada)
RE Go Preachers- printed shortly after John Cook and Cecil Buzby first brought the Gospel to Napan, New Brunswick, Canada.
1912, March    The World (Chatham Newspapers - New Brunswick, Canada)
1912, Mar 21   Go-Preachers have Gone from Napan
1912, Apr  10   Unseemly Conduct of Prayer Meeting Attendants
1912, Apr 12    Napan Correspondent
1912, Apr 27    That Napan Controversy
1912, May 7/ 8 Napan Notes

1912, March 13  Girls Hold Revival in Mount Airy School (Georgia) (Ida Hawkins & Ida McLaughlin)

The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1912, July 25, Pg 3 - Tramp Preachers - Hubbub in Suffolk
1912, Aug  8, Pg ? - One Paragraph Article about Nutfield Convention, Brookeborough
1913, Jan 30, Pg ? - Pilgrims' Tent Burned - Claim for Compensation

1913 Crocknacrieve Convention  - Last Large Scale Convention Held
1913, July   3, Pg 8 - Pilgrim Convention - at Crocknacrieve
1913, July 10, Pg 5 - Pilgrim Convention - A Large Gathering
1913, July 17, Pg 8 - Go Preachers - Win An Action
1913, July 31, Pg 8 - Go-Preachers Convention - Some Strange Sentiments
1913, Dec 18, Pg 3 - Go-Preachers - Awarded Damages - Mr. Eddy Cooney Wins

1914  The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, GA
RE: Sister Worker Ida Hawkins
1914, Apr 19 -  Pg ? - Like Apostles of Old, Young Girl is Preaching in North Georgia

1914 4-Day Coolkill Convention, Eglish (near Dungannon) - Home of James Richardson
The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1914, July  9, Pg 8 - Pilgrims Camp - In Tyrone

The Irish Times
1916, Sept 29, Pg ? - The Cooneyites in Fermanagh (Article not available at present)

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Ideas
1917, July 13, Pg 2 - Romance of the "Tramp Preachers"

The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1917, July 19, Pg 6 - The Tramp Preachers - Or Go Preachers

July 7, 1921 - Kings County Chronicle, Parsontown, Ireland (RE: Murder of Pearson Brothers at Coolacrease)
See also:
The Sunday Business Post, Ireland
2007, Oct 28, Pg 40 - When history and hearsay collide
The Tribune, Ireland
2007, Nov 7, Pg 15 - The Pearsons of Coolacrease

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1930, July 27, Sunday Independent Pg 4 - The "Dippers": a Queer Ulster Sect - A Story of the Irish "Hot Gospellers" (Edward Cooney)
by John J. Scollon

1931 Millbrook, Ontario, Canada Convention
1931, July 9, Pg ? - With the Saints - Fermanagh Convention Scenes  

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1931 Great Falls (MT) Tribune - Attempted Murder of Tom Lyness, Worker
1931, Dec 11, Pg   6 - Evangelist is Wounded at Bozeman - Barber from Pony Seriously Injures Tom Lyness In Hotel Lobby
1931, Dec 12, Pg   5 - Evangelist Wounded at Bozeman is not Expected to Live
1931, Dec 20, Pg   2 - Sumner Arraigned for Shooting Affair
1931, Mar 23, Pg   6 - Jury for Sumner Murder Trial to be Chosen Today
1932, Mar 25, Pg   ? - Shot Evangelist in Defense, Plea
1932, Mar 26, Pg 13 - Pony Barber Held Guilty of Assault in Bozeman Trial
1932, Mar 30, Pg   9 - Barber at Pony is Sentenced to Serve 12 Years in Prison
1936, Nov 28, Pg   3 - Wife Opposes Parole of Prisoner Husband

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1940 Gortaloughan Convention (3 miles from Enniskillen)
The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1940, June 27, Pg ? - Where Our People Worship - In an Upper Room
1940, July  11, Pg ? - The Saints Unite - Convention Near Enniskillen

Life Magazine
1945,  March 5, Santo Tomas is Delivered (RE: American soldiers free 3,700 US WW2 prisoners in Pp 25-29;  Manilla, Philipines) See Pp 26-27:  Photos of (worker) Ernest Stanley, "a missionary who worked as an interpreter during the talks between Colonel Brady and the Japanese."

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Death of William Irvine
(March 9, 1947)

The Palestine Post, now The Jerusalem Post
1947, Mar 10, Pg 2 - Obituary of Wm Irvine

The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1947,  Mar 16, William Irvine Dead - The Apostle of the Pilgrims

The Sunday (Palestine) Post, now The Jerusalem Post
1947, Mar 16,  Pg? -  William Irvine Had to Go (Announcement of William Irvine's Death)

The Palestine Post, now The Jerusalem Post
1947, March 20, Pg 2 - Probate of Last Will of Wm Irvine

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Irish Press
1951, March 14, Pg 6 - Sixty Years in Fermanagh
RE: George Coalter's Memoirs - Refers to Edward Cooney

The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
1951, May 1, The Whitest Man I Have Met (Ed Cooney)

1954, A Spiritual Fraud Exposed, written & published by Doug Parker, Australia

The Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California
RE: John (Jack) T. Carroll - Death and Funeral
1957, Mar 29, 700 Attend Rites for John Carroll  By Bill Fiset

The Vandalia Newspaper. Fayette County, Illinois
RE: Vandalia, IL Convention
August 30, 1958 By Don Pennington.
Christian group has been meeting at Biggs farm for 21 years. All available space is used to house 800 at the convention.

1960, June 23, The Impartial Reporter & Farmers Journal of Enniskillen, N. Ireland
A Great Figure Passes
RE: Death of Edward Cooney

Life of Faith (now Parentwise, Surrey, England)
1960, July 14,  Vol. 84, No. 3701: Cooneyites Lose Their Leader

1964, April 23, Vol. 88, No. 3898: Who Are the Cooneyites?

Belfast News Letter, Belfast, N Ireland
RE: 10-Year Anniversary of Ed Cooney's Death
1971, Feb 10 - He Tried to Live Like Christ

Whittier Daily News, Whittier, California
RE: Willie Jamieson - Death and Funeral
1974, Oct 17, 2,500 attend Funeral Rites Here for Minister; No Author Given

RE:  George Walker - Death and Funeral
1981, Nov 8,  Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
1981, Nov 9,  Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
1981, Nov 8/9, North Penn Reporter (Lansdale, Pennsylvania)
George Walker Dead at 104; Long-time Gospel Preacher

Orange Standard, Birmingham, England
(a monthly Protestant magazine  Loyal Orange Institution of England, pub. 1914-1928)
1984,  Oct, Pg 10 - Edward Cooney

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Australia

The Southern Argus country newspaper for South Australia
1932, April 2 Camp Convention at Blackwood Park

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1905, May 5,  Pg 3 -  Kilsyth Chronicle, Kilsyth, Scotland - Baptisms in Banton Loch

No date - Strange Sect Which Has no Name, St. Monance, Scotland

Extract from the "Dundee Courier" April 19, 1924 - Strange Preachers in Peterhead (Scotland)

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