Irish Cabin
Irish Harvesters
In nineteenth-century, it was the practice of many poor tenant labourers to go to England and Scotland each year for the purpose of harvest work. They arrived in large groups…
Sligo Gaol
Christmas in Sligo Gaol
In 1919, Bridget O'Mullane, an official Organiser in Cumann na mBan was convicted and sentenced to two months' hard labour for giving a speech encouraging the social ostracism of the…
Lady Jane Wilde recorded Samhain divination customs.
Cabbages – A Halloween custom
One Halloween night in 1879, several young boys sat huddled together in a field.They had lit a small fire to keep themselves warm from the October chill. Their duty that…
Hill of bodies
In April 1964, two young men from Cork were working on the building of a new church in the seaside resort of Enniscrone, Sligo. On their day off, they went…
Dun Maeve Hotel and Ballysadare bridge 1959 - Douglas Campbell
Ballysadare to Strandhill in 1947
Dun Maeve Hotel and Ballysadare bridge 1959 - Douglas Campbell An excerpt from a travel book from 1947, where the traveller writer has reached Ballysadare in County Sligo. A timely…
Martins Sligo Whiskey
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Valentine Blake Dillon
Source: National Portraits Gallery
Valentine Blake Dillon
Valentine Blake Dillon (1845 – 1904) was an Irish solicitor and politician. Dillon worked as a Land League solicitor and defended Charles Stuart Parnell. In 1880, the Land War had intensified…
Advertisement for Sequah's Oils and prarie Flower
When the Sequah came to Sligo
An advert for Sequah Remedies, the cure all. Source: The Graphic 11 July 1891 In 1891, a quack doctor arrived in Sligo with much fanfare. Sequah products were sold using…
Cholera and the Cure
The cholera epidemic remembered one hundred years after the event, as written by a schoolboy James Reynolds from Knockminna National School near Ballymote in Sligo from the Duchas school folklore…
Charlotte Thornley Stoker
As it's International Women's day, here is a short account of one Sligo lady who was considered ahead of her time for highlighting social issues and provided literary inspiration for…
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