Talk:Newtownards

message: This links to the wrong Hugh Montgomery.  Not sure how to handle the disambig, but wanted to point it out. -- J1729 00:44, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hugh Montgomery 

message: This article needs serious work to convert all the lists to prose, trim off boring/POV/travel guide/advertisement information, and make the article flow properly. NicM 16:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Since Northern Ireland is in the UK and over 90% of the people that live in Northern Ireland speaks English and not Irish please change the rule about havimg Irish in all towns and cities of Northern Ireland because our flag is the United flag and we pay tax to the UK goverment not to the irish.
:I oppose the above request. There is a substantial minority (albeit not a majority) in Northern Ireland who support the Irish language. The Irish language is deeply rooted in the history of all of Ireland, and this is still reflected in placenames everywhere in Ireland even where they have been anglicised. Many articles about places in Scotland include Gaelic names, even in areas where Gaelic is no longer a spoken language. Viewfinder 23:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't this belong on Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(Ireland-related_articles)? In any case, I oppose for much the same reason as Viewfinder: Northern Ireland is part of the island of Ireland, and although Irish is now a minority language, it is part of Irish history and culture and it is important to reflect that, particularly since many people in Northern Ireland subscribe to that culture. NicM 00:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I refer people to the manual of style that was formed by consensus of the editors of both Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland pages WP:IMOS#Irish_names_in_content. It's quite clear and the same format is used for all other towns and villages in Northern Ireland as well as the Republic of Ireland. This is a neutral encyclopaedia, editable by all not just people from certain areas. If you are on an anti-Irish campaign then this is the wrong place to be. Ben W Bell talk 08:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Heh. It's going to be a pretty hard sell to convince us that a town in Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland has nothing to do with the history of Ireland. NicM 15:08, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Well this is not an encyclopaedia edited specifically by people from Ards or people who have lived there. Wikipedia has a policy and manual of style designating that all towns on the island of Ireland have the Irish version of their name alongside their English version at least initially. Ben W Bell talk 18:23, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, I do, but that is irrelevent. The policy exists and there is no reason for Newtownards to be an exception. NicM 19:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Really, is that why it was an Irish town for most of it's history? It's always been in Ireland, it wasn't moved there, it's only been separated from the rest of Ireland since the creation of Northern Ireland. Oh and I know quite a lot about dirty Newtown. Ben W Bell talk 07:47, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

text: It means I know quite a bit about Newtownards, or dirty Newtown as it's commonly called. Ben W Bell talk 15:44, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

text: We used to go to Ards Shopping Centre to get our shopping with our Mum in the 80's. I always thought Clandeboye in Bangor was better, anyway, I used to be Irish and I've been shopping with my Mum in Newtownards so I reckon that just about sews it up don't you think. The Boy that time forgot 01:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Can I just point out how deeply offensive and sectarian you're coming across - as a Northern Irish part-Catholic I am outraged
Newtonards - your approach is a sign of ill educatucated petulance. My paternal family owned and built up most of modern day Newtonards and we still know and regularly use Gaelic. We know we have been speaking gaelic since it began. If you think you have a right to dictate freedom of speech, education and wiki policy then you're very misguided. Whether you support the use of gaeilge or the Union Flag or not, you should still respect history. You sound like a complete bigot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.9.234.147 (talk) 23:33, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish to removed 

message: I'm from Perth, Australia, and have some pictures from my 2004 holiday (Newtownards is actually my birthplace, but I moved here at age 6) - one of the abbey ruins atop Movilla Road, a few inside and outside the shopping centre, a shot from the S/C of Scrabo Tower, the main street (seems to be Regent Street facing onto Francis Street), a few other nearby streets, town hall, what appears to be an old church with a spire, a few of suburban streets in Abbeydale estate, and one of the former (fenced/boarded up) Castle Gardens school which I went to as a small child. Numerous others too. If there is any interest I can put some of these up on Commons - where would be good places to start? Orderinchaos 15:51, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: The infobox gives Neuton as the Ulster Scots version of Newtownards. I also remember reading Newtounairds somewhere before. Have we any reliable sources to support either? ~Asarlaí 20:52, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Neuton is just a local colloquial term for the town, I can't see it having any official reliable references. Canterbury Tail talk 20:56, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scots name? 

message: I reverted the edits to the car bombing as they were inaccurate. The forensics lab that was destroyed was in Belfast not in Newtownards. Newtownards only has one significant bombing during the troubles which was the Roma's one on Regent Street in 1993. 
See
*source
*CAIN source
*another
For the actual Newtownards one
CAIN source.Canterbury Tail talk 11:59, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forensics Laboratory 

message: I think this attribution is incorrect. The only source I can find, List_of_monastic_houses_in_Ireland#County_Down, with specifics about the O'Neill clan and Newtownards says that after the Priory was dissolved in 1541, it was burned by Clannaboy O'Neills in 1572 to deny its use to the British as a possible fort, cousins of Hugh O'Neill (c. 1550–1616), but not him.
Now I don't want to use WP as a source, so I have to figure out if there's another source to be used. But on this basis, I'm thinking to remove the "Hugh", which has been a disambiguation sore point since Dec 2011.  —jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 00:37, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I've done what I could for the first part of the History section. Needs more and better sources.  —jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 03:50, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newtownards monastery and Hugh O'Neill 

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