SLIGO, County, Ireland

slīˈgō, county (1991 pop. 54,756), 694 sq mi (1,797 sq km), N Republic of Ireland. The county seat is Sligo. The irregular coast line is deeply indented by Killala Bay and Sligo Bay. The interior is mountainous, with the Slieve Gamph, or Ox Mts., in the west and the Dartry range, rising to c.2,000 ft (610 m) in the northeast. Cattle raising (beef and dairy) is the chief occupation. Tourism is economically important. The population is less than one third of what it was before the potato famine of the mid-19th cent. A round tower at Drumcliffe is all that remains of a monastery founded by St. Columba in 575.

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books on: Sligo County Ireland  - 591 results

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Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements
Book by Maria Tymoczko, Colin Ireland; University of Massachusetts Press, 2003
Subjects: Ireland--Civilization, Ireland--Languages, Ireland--Literatures--History And Criticism, Language And Culture--Ireland
...pertaining to Irelands pre-Christian...monasteries of Fahan in County Donegal and Monasterboice in County Louth. 12...knowledge about Ireland , as well as...of his native County Tyrone. For Montague...tradition for Northern Ireland, looking back...
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Prelude to Restoration in Ireland: The End of the Commonwealth, 1659-1660
Book by Aidan Clarke; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Ireland--History--1649-1660, Protestants--Ireland--History--17th Century
...had accumulated arrears for service in Ireland before that date. Additional resources...forces from England. The land forfeited in County Cavan and in selected baronies in Fermanagh...Louth, Longford, Kilkenny, Cork and Sligo was assigned to the payment of these...
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Making Ireland British, 1580-1650
Book by Nicholas Canny; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: British--Ireland--History--16th Century, British--Ireland--History--17th Century, Great Britain--Relations--Ireland, Ireland--History--1558-1603, Ireland--History--17th Century, Ireland--Relations--Great Britain
...the time. Most counties in Ireland were delineated during the...This leaves us with Queens County, rather than County Laois...Londonderry for the enlarged County Coleraine. Town and townland...described as Britain and Ireland, and I deliberately avoid the...
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Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland
Book by W. E. Vaughan; Clarendon Press, 1994
Subjects: Eviction--Ireland--History--19th Century, Farm Tenancy--Ireland--History--19th Century, Land Tenure--Ireland--History--19th Century, Landlord And Tenant--Ireland--History--19th Century
...Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 Dublin, 1978 Whyte...acres in Antrim, Down, Kildare, Kings County, and Wicklow; the earl of Erne had 40,000 acres in Donegal, Fermanagh, Mayo, and Sligo. 2 The most visible aspect of the...
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Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America
Book by Charles Fanning; Southern Illinois University Press, 2002
Subjects: American Literature--Irish American Authors--History And Criticism, English Literature--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--Civilization, Ireland--In Literature, Irish Americans In Literature, Irish Americans--Intellectual Life, Irish Literature--History And Criticism
...write about Ireland have built any...his youth in Sligo; he had read...Wood-Martins Pagan Ireland, published...History of Sligo, County and Town, and...and lakes in Ireland. One day, however...deepest in the County Sligo. In a footnote...
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journal articles on: Sligo County Ireland  - 20 results

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Wild Workhouse Girls and the Liberal Imperial State in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland
Journal article by Anna Clark; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Almshouses--Analysis, Almshouses--History, Ireland--Demographic aspects, Ireland--History
...Country Workhouse in Ireland," Journal of the Workhouse...Society 2 (1864): 149; Sligo Board of Guardians Minute Books, 1861, 1864, Sligo County Library; Survey of Workhouses...Elphin Diocesan Archives, Sligo, Box Section III C...in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Belfast, 1994): 46-52...
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Hidden Fermanagh: Traditional Music and Song from County Fermanagh
Journal article by Keith Chandler; Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Hidden Fermanagh: Traditional Music and Song from County Fermanagh (Book), Sound recordings--Sound recording reviews, The Hardy Sons of Dan: Football, Hunting and Other Traditional Songs from Around Loch Erne's Shore (Sound recording)--Book reviews, The Hardy Sons of Dan: Football, Hunting and Other Traditional Songs from Around Loch Erne's Shore (Sound recording)--Sound recording reviews
...by Sharon Creasey. Drumbeggan, Monea, County Fermanagh: Fermanagh Traditional Music...this still largely rural area of Northern Ireland across a century and a half. At the earliest...track 3 sounds most like the expatriate Sligo fiddle players who appeared extensively...
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Hospitality at Wakes and Funerals in Ireland from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: Some Evidence from the Written Record
Journal article by Patricia Lysaght; Folklore, Vol. 114, 2003
Subjects: Funerals--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Hospitality--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Mortuary practice--History, Mortuary practice--Religious aspects
...not very explicit about the Church of Ireland wakes in his area, he clearly depicts...Presbyterian congregation of Magherafelt, county Derry, in 1831, whom we find resolving...Vicar of the parish of Kilmactige, county Sligo, reported for Masons Survey that only...
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Reading a Woman's Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Journal article by Angela Bourke; Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, 1995
Subjects: Feminism
...independence in rural Ireland. The stately, sad figure...around his uncles home in County Sligo. He had not simply left...The Abortion Papers: Ireland Dublin: Attic Press...year a young woman in County Kilkenny brought charges...
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Food Supply and Economic Ideology: Indian Corn Relief during the Second Year of the Great Irish Famine (1847)
Journal article by Mohamed Salah Harzallah; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Famine victims--Ireland, Famine victims--United Kingdom, Famines--Analysis, Historiography--Analysis, Historiography--Research, Irish history, Malthus, Thomas Robert--Analysis, Malthus, Thomas Robert--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Malthus, Thomas Robert--Works, Russell, John (British politician), Smith, Adam (American politician)--Analysis, Smith, Adam (American politician)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Victims of famine--Ireland, Victims of famine--United Kingdom
...the districts in Ireland. In spite of that...The food depot at Sligo issued large supplies...example, Schull, County Cork, 21 September...Commissary-General Stevens, at Sligo, from 10 August to...87. (66.) Schull, County Cork, 21 September...alleviation of distress in Ireland. Mr. Trevelyan to...
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magazine articles on: Sligo County Ireland  - 24 results

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Irresistible Ireland
Magazine article by Robert S. Rothenberg, Sheila Rothenberg; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 125, September 1996
Subjects: Aer Lingus Group PLC--Services, Castles--Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (City)--Description and travel, Ireland--Description and travel, Kildare, Ireland (County)--Description and travel
...cited as one of Irelands 100 best in...Collooney, County Sligo. Following...Cromwell invaded Ireland in the 17th...back to the Sligo County estate, where...clothing. In County Limerick, as...throughout Ireland, despite being...
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Celtic Creatures - A Bestiary of Ancient Ireland
Magazine article by Steenie Harvey; World and I, Vol. 15, June 2000
Subjects: Animals, Mythical--Portrayals, Book of Kells (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Ireland--Myths and legends, Mythical animals--Portrayals
...warrior of the Fianna, Irelands military elite, Fionn...dreamscape. For instance, county Sligos Ben Bulben appears...the death ride reaches Sligo and its brooding tabletop...based in Boyle, Roscommon County, Ireland. Her article "Twilight...
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Autumn Becomes Ireland: Late in the Year the Irish Countryside Is Moreenchanting Than Ever
Magazine article by Richard Todd; The Atlantic Monthly, August 1, 1998
Subjects: Ireland--Description and travel, Travel industry--Ireland
...the sinew of its nontourist economy. Ireland is a small enough country that visitors...elsewhere, of course. Our work done in Sligo, we could have had a fine time tramping...walking along the beaches of the adjacent County Mayo. Knowing this, still we had decided...
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Autumn Becomes Ireland: Late in the Year the Irish Countryside Is More Enchanting Than Ever
Magazine article by Richard Todd; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, July 1998
Subjects: Ireland--Description and travel
...the sinew of its nontourist economy. IRELAND is a small enough country that visitors...elsewhere, of course. Our work done in Sligo, we could have had a fine time tramping...walking along the beaches of the adjacent County Mayo. Knowing this, still we had decided...
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Did Your Mother Come from Ireland
Magazine article by Clive Barnes; Dance Magazine, Vol. 74, June 2000
Subjects: Dance companies--Performances, Dance production--Planning, Dancing--Ireland, Ireland--Popular culture
...standards and competitions for Irish step dancing in Ireland and all over the Irish world. It is admittedly quite...international commodity. Flatley--yes, his father did come from County Sligo--was the first American to win the All-World Championship...
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newspaper articles on: Sligo County Ireland  - 595 results

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Football: Long Suffering Yeatsmen Look to Rovers for a Little Inspiration; SLIGO TRIO FIGHT FOR COUNTY ON ALL FRONTS
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 3, 2007
...SLIGO TRIO FIGHT FOR COUNTY ON ALL FRONTS. Byline: By CHRIS BEECH WHEN Sligo Rovers take on Cork City...again tomorrow in the All-Ireland football quarter-final...brother Brian is on the Sligo county team, as is Michael McNamara...
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Gaelic Football: EYES ON THE PRIZE; Bank of Ireland ALL-IRELAND SFC QUARTER FINAL: Sligo V Cork, Croke Park, Today, 2 Yeatsmen Not Satisfied at Connacht Title with All-Ireland on the Horizon
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 4, 2007
...narrow-minded about this. "We have put the Conacht final behind us and have to treat this as our All-Ireland final." Around one sixth of the population of county Sligo is expected to descend on Croke Park for their first visit there since 2002. That summer...
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Ex-Cross' Supremo Is Looking for Even More Pic: SPORTSFILE ; Ambitious: Crossmolina's All-Ireland Winning Manager Tommy Jordan Wants Further Glory for Connacht Champions Sligo
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 8, 2007
...Crossmolinas All-Ireland Winning Manager...Connacht Champions Sligo. Byline...delivered the Yeats County to their firstprovincial...whomanagedCross-molina to an All-Ireland club title in...taking over a county team. It is...to take it. Sligo showed last...pointing the Sligo board in Jordans...a dismalAll-Ireland quarterfinal...
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Football: Tribe Return to the Croke Glory Days Fitz the Bill for Kieran; Bank of Ireland FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: CONNACHT SENIOR FINAL - SLIGO V GALWAY, HYDE PARK, 2.00 SKIPPER TO END LONG YEAT
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 7, 2007
...where we were All-Ireland champions. "We lost...good enough to beat Sligo." Stranger things...they met the Yeats County in last years Championship...happened against Sligo? Hes a fantastic...proud footballing county like Galway, no win...since that 2001 All-Ireland final defeat of Meath...
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GAA: REBELS YELL; ALL-IRELAND SFC QUALIFIERS - RD 4 It's Galway in Last Eight for Hot Cork CORK..............3-13 SLIGO.............0-11
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), July 31, 2005
...year to make the All-Ireland quarter-finals and weve done that. "We knew Sligo would be a tough game...said: "Ill speak to the county board in the next month...decision for football in the county. I havent thought about...Corrigan reckoned that Sligo lost the game largely...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sligo County Ireland  - 3 results

 
 
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Sligo , County, Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SLIGO , county, Ireland sli go, county (1991 pop. 54,756), 694 sq mi (1,797 sq km), N Republic of Ireland. The county seat is Sligo . The irregular coast line is deeply indented by Killala...
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Sligo , Town, Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ireland town (1991 pop. 17,964), county seat of Sligo, N Republic of Ireland, at the mouth of the Garavogue River on Sligo Bay. It is a seaport and fishing center...woolen trade and other industries. Sligo also imports coal, iron, and timber...
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Yeats, W. B
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he attended school in London and spent vacations in County Sligo, Ireland, which was the setting for many of his poems. He became...1889) voiced the intense nationalism of the Young Ireland movement. Poetry: First Period Yeatss verse can...


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