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18th century contract killers

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

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19th century shipwreck

Melancholy Shipwreck

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

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John Walsh and Edenhill House in Sligo

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

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Jack Butler Yeats

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

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Whiskey in the jar – A brief history of the original Sligo Distillery

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

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The night a world-famous Irish tenor performed at the Gaiety Sligo

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

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Mystery disappearance of RAF Officers

A few years ago when I was researching a local history article, I came across this headline in the newspaper archives which caught my eye. Mystery

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Harper Campbells building Sligo

Old warehouse building in Sligo – Industrial heritage

Sligo’s Port was once a bustling and thriving place with ships taking passengers and cargo to England, America and Canada. Warehouses  were built close to

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Charles Kerrigan and the Connaught Rangers Mutiny in India 1920

A piece I wrote for a genealogy history assignment a few years ago about my great grandfather and the Connaught Rangers Mutiny which occurred on

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Quiz master Sligo

Sligo Emoji Quiz Round 2

Ready for round 2? I’ve created another Sligo emoji quiz How many can you get? As before, some of these places are now part of

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Local Sligo Places Emoji Quiz

I made a local Sligo places quiz using only basic emojis with some suggestions from my family when we played it. How many can you

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Artist sketch of Hobart town

Landed in Van Diemen’s Land

Van Diemen’s Land was set up as a penal colony in 1803 by the British Empire. It is estimated that some 75,000 convicts were shipped

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Nineteenth century fish sellers

Trouble at the Fish Market in Sligo

In the nineteenth-century, police constables were discouraged from interacting or becoming too friendly with their fellow citizens; least they might be unduly influenced, a professional

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Sligo in the past

Merchants of Sligo – Higgins & Keighron

Higgins & Keighron flagon – Source – B. Higgins Irish Antique Bottle Collectors Club Facebook group A whiskey flagon from Higgins & Keighron Ltd, Wholesale

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Nineteenth-century cabin in Ireland

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.

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Jail in Sligo

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

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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

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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

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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

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Martins Sligo Whiskey

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Lady Anne Trail

The Lady Anne Walk that originally connected Hazelwood House with Ardaghowen has received funding for the trail to be extended and renovated. The historic nature

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Cockran’s Mall Sligo in the 19th Century

Art murals by the talented late Sligo artist Bernard McDonagh on the walls of the back bar in the Embassy/The Belfry on Kennedy Parade, Sligo.

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Sligo and the Dracula connection

The author Bram Stoker’s mother hailed from Sligo. Her name was Charlotte Thornley and she lived with her parents Captain Thomas Thornley, Matilda Blake Thornley

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Cholera Remedy in 1832

In the Summer of 1832, 186 years ago, an outbreak of Cholera was spreading throughout Ireland. Cures and remedy advertisements appeared in newspapers. The text

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Sligo Dark Tales – The perils of travelling alone in the 18th-Century

Shepherd-boy by Thomas Barker (1769-1847) From the newspaper archives comes the late eighteenth-century story of two young boys herding cattle on Doomore mountain near Coolaney, County

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Don’t miss the Sligo Dark Tales Tour and learn all about Sligo’s connection to Bram Stoker and the novel Dracula.

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