Lower Quay Street
Storm surge floods Sligo 1884
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…
Market Street/Market Cross in Sligo town before the Lady Erin statue was erected.
The Great Liberator’s visit to Sligo
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 Christmas Ghost at Gibraltar House
A hundred years ago before television and radio entertained us, at Christmas time, people gathered together and told ghost stories. Charles Dicken's famous Christmas Carol is one such famous ghost…
The Glen
A visit to the Glen in the nineteenth century
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…
18th century highway robbery
18th century contract killers
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…
Shipwreck off a rocky coast by Abraham Hulk Senior (1846)
Melancholy Shipwreck
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…
John Walsh's Royal Mail and Day Car service on Corcoran's Mall, Sligo.
John Walsh and Edenhill House in Sligo
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 Riverside (Long Ago) - painted in 1922 and set twenty years before in the Edwardian era
© estate of Jack B. Yeats.
Painting photo credit: Ulster Museum
Jack Butler Yeats
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…
Source credit: Jim McSharry via Sligo Photos and Postcards
Whiskey in the jar – A brief history of the original Sligo Distillery
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,…
The night a world-famous Irish tenor performed at the Gaiety Sligo
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…