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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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Landed in Van Diemen’s Land

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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 there up until 1853 when…

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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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Irish Harvesters

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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. They arrived in large groups…

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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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Dun Maeve Hotel and Ballysadare bridge 1959 - Douglas Campbell

Ballysadare to Strandhill in 1947

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Dun Maeve Hotel and Ballysadare bridge 1959 - Douglas Campbell Traveller writer John Woods visited Ireland in 1947 and wrote a travel guide with insightful observations which provide a vivid…

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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…

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