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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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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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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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Read more about the article Merchants of Sligo – Higgins & Keighron
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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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Read more about the article When the Sequah came to Sligo
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When the Sequah came to Sligo

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An advert for Sequah Remedies, the cure all. Source: The Graphic 11 July 1891 In 1891, a quack doctor arrived in Sligo with much fanfare. Sequah products were sold using…

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Cholera and the Cure

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The cholera epidemic remembered one hundred years after the event, as written by a schoolboy James Reynolds from Knockminna National School near Ballymote in Sligo from the Duchas school folklore…

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Charlotte Thornley Stoker

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As it's International Women's day, here is a short account of one Sligo lady who was considered ahead of her time for highlighting social issues and provided literary inspiration for…

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Sligo and the Dracula connection

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The author Bram Stoker's mother hailed from Sligo. Her name was Charlotte Thornley and she lived with her parents Captain Thomas Thornley, Matilda Blake Thornley along with her two younger…

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