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Valentine Blake Dillon Source: National Portraits Gallery

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 1880, the Land War had intensified…

Sligo and the Dracula connection

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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 along with her two younger…