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Tag: Sligo

  • The Demolition of 39 High Street

    The council and the preservation laws are facilitating, albeit inadvertently, the steady loss of the old town urban fabric. Many iconic shop fronts, residential and industrial buildings, cobbled streets, mills and weirs, have been lost over the years, a legacy that does not seem to be changing.

  • James Connolly, Anarchist Syndicalism and the Sligo Dock Strike

    James Connolly and the importance of Anarchist Syndicalism in the Irish revolutionary period.

  • Why Sligo Needs a World Class Museum

    The case for a world class museum in the town of Sligo, northwest Ireland.

  • The Curious Re-Emergence of an Ancient Irish Tuath

    Indiana: Balloq’s medallion only had writing on one side? You sure about that? Sallah: Positive! Indiana: Balloq’s staff is too long. Indiana: Sallah: They’re digging in the wrong place! Raiders of the Lost Ark, (1981)   County Sligo, and the old Borough Corporation of Sligo town are roughly 400 years old, and both are creations […]

  • The Sligo Mills at the Glasshouse

    In 2005 excavations took place on the site of the present Glasshouse hotel. The site had been that of the Sligo Mills, owned by the Pollexfen family in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Pollexfens were WB Yeats maternal family. Mills on the site appear to have been there at least since the […]

  • A Castle on Teeling Street?

    A Castle on Teeling Street, Sligo The Discovery In 2007, during routine extension works, archaeologists struck a stone covering an old drain right under the present Weekender office on Teeling street. When the stone was lifted an unusual type of wine bottle was found, known from its shape as an onion bottle. These onion bottles […]