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Storm surge floods Sligo 1884

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The morning of the 26th January 1884 started fine and sunny, and the streets of the town were thronged with shoppers as it was a Saturday and Market day. By…

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Market Street/Market Cross in Sligo town before the Lady Erin statue was erected.

The Great Liberator’s visit to Sligo

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On the 24th January 1837, Daniel O'Connell, visited Sligo with much fanfare. The road from Ballina to Sligo was crowded with thousands of people who had travelled for miles to…

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A visit to the Glen in the nineteenth century

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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…

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18th century highway robbery

18th century contract killers

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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…

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Shipwreck off a rocky coast by Abraham Hulk Senior (1846)

Melancholy Shipwreck

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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…

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Read more about the article Whiskey in the jar – A brief history of the original Sligo Distillery
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Whiskey in the jar – A brief history of the original Sligo Distillery

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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,…

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Read more about the article The night a world-famous Irish tenor performed at the Gaiety Sligo

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

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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…

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Knox Street Sligo late nineteenth-century

Merchants of Sligo – Higgins & Keighron

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

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Christmas in Sligo Gaol

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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 the social ostracism of the…

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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 their day off, they went…

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