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 country. John Walsh was apprenticed to…
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 poet W. B. Yeats.As a…
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,…
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…
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 disappearance… ran the headline in the…
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 the docks to store goods…
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 Sligo's history and no longer…
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 get? Sligo emoji quiz, featuring…
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…
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 distance was generally observed.In 1890,…