Cabbages – A Halloween custom
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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
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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
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Dun Maeve Hotel and Ballysadare bridge 1959 – Douglas Campbell An excerpt from a travel book from 1947, where the traveller writer has reached Ballysadare
Valentine Blake Dillon
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Valentine Blake Dillon (1845 – 1904) was an Irish solicitor and politician. Dillon worked as a Land League solicitor and defended Charles Stuart Parnell. In
When the Sequah came to Sligo
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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.