Place: Sligo
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Sligo, the Odyssey, and the Stream that Flows Backwards
A disguised kingdom: Ó hEoghusa’s Odyssey, and what it says about being unrecognised. Understanding Sligo Series -1 First published in 2017 and since updated. Sligo’s last untranslated native name, and the failure of Sligos heritage protection. The Waterfall There is…
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What Streedagh Still Holds
The Galeón Andalucía in Sligo, June 30th 2026 Article modified to correct errors on mass and scale in the first version. This research is ongoing! Four hundred and thirty-eight years ago, three ships of the Levant squadron drove ashore at…
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The Wrong Kind of Irish: Sligo, the West, and the Two Conquests of Ireland
Warning! book length essay – 26,689 words “The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity…
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Dublin’s Great Greenway Swindle
Featured Image : The Snow Ghost – Scooby Doo, 1969 How a Dublin-Controlled Civil Service in cahoots with politicians Has Systematically Blocked Western Rail for Fifteen Years — And Why They Want Your Railway Tracks for Cycle Paths “Mr. Greenway…
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The Archaeological Peninsula: Sligo’s Development Constraints and Planning Crisis
Sacred Ground, Modern City Planning Within Ancient Landscapes Article 1 of 7 Archaeological Constraints • UNESCO Heritage • Urban Planning • Neolithic Landscape How one of Ireland’s most significant Neolithic landscapes is reshaping urban planning in the 21st century Sligo…
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John Butler Yeats; Anarchism & Art in the Making of Modern Ireland
“I know that there are many historians, or at least writers on historical subjects, who still think it necessary to apply moral judgments to history, and who distribute their praise or blame with the solemn complacency of a successful schoolmaster.…
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Why Sligo Needs a World Class Museum
The case for a world class museum in the town of Sligo, northwest Ireland.
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Queen Medb and Lakshmi, Irish Kingship and the Feminine Power
“for ’tis I that exacted a singular vow, such as no woman before me had ever required of a man of the men of Erin, namely, a husband without avarice, without jealousy, without fear. For should he be mean, the…