A wide range of authors describe, analyse, interpret and re-interpret parts of the complex understudied, and at times misunderstood, archive of eight thousand years of Co. Sligo’s past.
Drawing on new and exciting knowledge about what Sligo looked like at times in the remote past, the events which changed lifestyles and the products of humble and status craftsmen the authors give us a greater understanding of our county and its place in Ireland’s past and present and they inform us of some inspired intellectual and artistic giants of more recent centuries.
The illustrations draw us out into the Sligo landscape, so richly endowed with the natural beauty, archaeology and history that surrounds us all the days of our lives.
Full Descriptions of Eighty Memorials from all over Co. Sligo with comparative entries for over 500 memorials which commemorate past loved ones, some, the short and only annals of many a departed soul, others monuments of national importance, together with notices, details and location of the graveyards.
The styles of artwork, the first written description of the Masons of Sligo, who so lovingly carved these monuments, notices of the families commemorated, their lives and properties illustrated by 230 photographs, selected from an archive of 7,000 photographs, rubbings, drawings and a map. Provided to assist the reader in appreciating those memorials and the many other memorials to the dead of Co. Sligo of the last 4 centuries.
This collection of nineteen short stories deals with murder, the supernatural, immigration, separation, relationships, love and life. While the stories are set mainly in rural Ireland some inevitably cross the Irish sea. They provide a glimpse of Irish life fast disappearing and range from dark comedy to poignancy.
In ‘Lady of the Lake’ the peace and tranquility of a lakeside village is broken by the murder of a quiet if somewhat inquisitive stranger.
The ticking of an old clock brings back childhood memories of a formidable old woman in ‘Kate the Bush.’
The short story ‘The Homecoming’ explores the relationship between a father and son against the background of immigration and advancing years.
In ‘A Grave Matter’, Flaherty’s pub is frequented by local drunkards, headers, wasters and anybody else who happens yo be passing by and has the misfortune to call in.
Memories and photographs from the town land of Curcreigh in County Roscommon. Michael Dalton recollects his childhood and early years as he observes a way of life and a farming population fast disappearing.
A way of life which was typical of so many other townlands in the West of Ireland.
Remembering St. Comán – Patron Saint of Ros Comáin by Noel Hoare. This book traces the legacy of St. Comán across the centuries, and in so doing sheds light on generations of Roscommon people.
This is a comprehensive historical, archaeological and folklore-based study carried out by amateur historian Noel Hoare, where no stone was left unturned as he sought to bring the story of St. Comán and his importance in Co. Roscommon to light. A must have for anyone interested in Roscommon and it’s origins.
Covering a large swathe of the eastern part of the county, ‘Sliabh Bán, A Historical Journey’, is a 470-page volume which chronicles the lives and times of generations past who lived on and around the rugged mountain.
This publication is the culmination of twenty years of research and writing by Henry Owens of Lismehy. He has been assisted in recent years by Mike Lennon, now Dublin-based, but who grew up in Corbohill.
The sixth instalment of the Sligo Field Club Journal, 2020.
List of contents; Martin Wilson – Presidential, Martin A. Timoney – Editorial.
Don C.F. Cotton – Peat and wood deposits along the seashore of Co. Sligo, Martin A. Timoney – Early Bronze Age Cist Grave, Moylough, 1928, Martin A. Timoney – Imitative Fert Burials, Knocknashammer, Brian Lacey – Cúl Dreimne, Drumcliff and Colum Cille, Jim Higgins – Some County Sligo Rood Lofts, Jim Higgins -Medieval Men in Feathered Suits at Sligo Abbey, Conor MacHale – Ó Dubhda Family of Sligo, Eamonn P. Kelly – Antiquarian Research in Co. Sligo, Eamonn P. Kelly – Battle of Moytura and the Enchanted Forge, John McKeon – Lord Palmerston’s Sligo Town Properties, Peter Henry – Some Sligo-related Armorial Bookplates, John Mullaney – V.E. Day 2020, Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich – Monasterredan: How Looks Can Deceive, Harry Keaney – Field-names ‘Sketch the Land in Language’, Ben Healy – God-out-of-the-Bottle, Rory Callagy – Remembering Des Smith.
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