A hundred years ago before television and radio entertained us, at Christmas time, people gathered together and told ghost stories. Charles Dicken's famous Christmas Carol is one such famous ghost…
The Glen I first heard of Asenath Nicholson's travel account during my college course in Heritage and Folklore. I was writing an assignment on visitors observations of Ireland. Nicholson's travels took…
Intro video for the Sligo Walking tours St Patrick's festival event.
Traveller writer John Woods visited Ireland in 1947 and wrote a travel guide with insightful observations which provide a vivid social history account of 1940s post war Ireland. I first…
From the archives of 1728 comes the dark tale of Captain Parks of Sligo, who is described as a Gentleman of considerable Estate in the neighbourhood, who was condemned to…
The Tory vessel on its return to Sligo from Liverpool in January 1856, struck rocks and sank with the loss of five lives. The owners of the vessel, both inhabitants…
Charles Bianconi revolutionised public transport in Ireland with the use of horses and carriages. He established a network of routes, which covered most of the country. John Walsh was apprenticed to…
The artist Jack Butler Yeats was born in London in 1871. Yeats was the youngest child of the painter John Yeats and brother of the poet W. B. Yeats.As a…
Hazelwood House, an eighteenth-century Palladian house situated a few kilometres outside Sligo town, overlooks the shores of Lough Gill. The house was designed by the famous German architect Richard Cassells,…
On the 15th January 1936, the world-famous Irish tenor Count John McCormack visited Sligo.McCormack was born in Athlone, Westmeath in 1884. His parents Hannah and Andrew McCormack were both born…