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.
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
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
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
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
