A Marriage Proposal at the Fairy Bridges
In 1862, John Butler Yeats came to Sligo to visit his friend from boarding school George Pollexfen. He met George's sister Susan Mary and within a few days, he proposed…
In 1862, John Butler Yeats came to Sligo to visit his friend from boarding school George Pollexfen. He met George's sister Susan Mary and within a few days, he proposed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…