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County Sligo Ireland BOOKS

Sligo Bookstores!

  • Visit The Book Nest Sligo's friendly book and coffee shop by the river on the internet. It has all the local publications from Sligoin stock. There is an online order form or one you can mail in and prices are listed in both $ and £. Email orders@booknest.ie 5 Rockwood Parade, Sligo, Ireland.

  • Visit Keohane's bookstore bookshop@iol.ie. it hasdozens of the Mary O'Dowd book. It also has John McTernan's "Sligo: Sources of Local History,"an invaluable research aid. Also, JoeMcGowan's "In the Shadow of Benbulben" has been reissued and isavailable there, as is McTernan's "In Sligo Long Ago" and his "At theFoot of Knocknarea." These can be mail-ordered via thee-mail address I listed above. Thank you Paul Burns for sharing this information!

Sligo Books!

    • Tracing Sligo Ancestors: Written by Gretta Connell - shows how to access the records available for family history research in Sligo, and how they can be best used.
      It provides background information on how the records for the county were compiled; what information is contained; and on which categories of people. It also provides background on the social history of the counties and how this history has affected the keeping and survival of records.
      Full information here
    • Time and Place: the Merediths of County Sligo - Written by Lex Johnson.
      206 pages (x, 196), A4-sized paperback. Published by the author 2009.Bibliography, index, illustrations. ISBN: 9780980633306 This fully referenced work ties together several years of intensive research into the history of the Meredith family of Co. Sligo. The discussion commences with their earliest arrival into the county and closes with the gradual decline in their number into the twentieth century. Far from being a list of names, dates and places, the work explores their activities and connections with every level of county society, as well as the Caribbean plantations and the English royal court. Migrating families are described, but the main attention stays upon those remaining in the county. Even if you're not a Meredith by blood, you may become excited to learn about the families with whom the Merediths were associated or the places they lived and worked. Other families to receive special attention include O'Connor-Sligo, French, Naper , Dorran, Duke and Thompson. The introduction alone is worth investigating with its outline of surviving source material which may be used to investigate other families. Enjoyed by people in Sligo and abroad, the book goes far beyond mere family histories to resemble a regional history throughout time, as seen through the eyes of one family.
      Copies, signed and numbered, available only from the author, email lj-publications@hotmail.com.AUD 50 plus p/h
    • Another time and place: the Black and McKim families of County Sligo - Written by Lex Johnson.
      214 pages (x, 204), A4-sized paperback. Published by the author 2009.Bibliography, index, illustrations. ISBN: 9780980633313 - Intended as a sequel to Johnson's original work, this book continues the study of Co. Sligo's history by investigating the Black and McKim families. The story begins with their arrival in the 1600s and continues in earnest until 1850. As with the first volume, migrating families are described in enough detail for their descendants to identify where their ancestors fit into the larger picture. Some branches are described into the early 1900s. This work particularly explores the social conditions affecting the Blacks, McKims and their associated families, friends and neighbours, with special attention given to the Atkinson and Ryan families. Filled to the brim with family charts, maps, photographs, signatures and references, the book ties together the author's extensive study of the region since 1995.
      Copies, signed and numbered, available only from the author, email lj-publications@hotmail.com. AUD 50 plus p/h

    • The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842 by Dr Jennifer Kelly
      Comprising well over 3,000 members throughout the county by the early 1840s, the Ribbon society maintained an intricate web of social and economic networks among the lower trading and labouring strata of Co. Sligo and the surrounding counties of Leitrim, Longford and Roscommon. With a lodge present in almost every parish in the county by 1842, the Ribbon society also provided important social benefits for some of its members, helping to maintain a social pecking order among men of the lower ranks of society. The arrest of James Hagan, one of the most powerful Ribbonmen in Sligo, and his subsequent decision to turn informer against his Ribbon comrades, not only led to the exposure of the society in Sligo, but also resulted in the arrests and transportation of men throughout Connaught and Ulster and as far afield as Glasgow and Liverpool. ‘The Downfall of Hagan’ in Sligo in 1842 provides a rare insight into the nature and extent of Ribbonism in early nineteenth century Ireland at a local, regional and national level.Jennifer Kelly received her PhD in 2005 from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. She is currently working on associational culture in Ireland, 1750-1940, as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of History at NUI Maynooth. This book is a 64pp illustrated paperback.
      retails at Euro 9.9
      Four Courts Press http://www.fourcourtspress.ie

    • Constance Markievicz
      This book traces Constance Markievicz’s journey from a pampered childhood in a Sligo landlord’s mansion to her participation in Ireland’s literary and political Renaissance.There is much new and previously unpublished material here. Paintings done by Constance while in Holloway jail are reproduced in colour — the first time ever in print. Many people ask if the Countess has any descendants, did her daughter Maeve ever marry, did she have children? These questions are answered in two articles: ‘Maeve: Madame’s Daughter’ and ‘ The Polish Connection’.Her political awakening led to her championing women’s rights and her eventual command of a company of Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rebellion. Sentenced to death and incarcerated in a British prison she became, not just the first woman ever elected to the British Parliament, but as Minister for Labour, the first woman Cabinet Minister in Europe, if not the world! Her heroic endurance during several prison terms and her correspondence with her sister Eva is told here.
      £12.00
      Available from booksellers or from the author: Tel. 071-66267 or email joe_mcgowan@hotmail.com

    • In the Shadow of Benbulben, 336pp
      History and folklore of Sligo’s Yeats Country. Published by Aeolus 1993.
      Reprinted and updated 1994 & 2000.
      ISBN: 0 9521334 0 7 HB Price 20 euro.
      ISBN: 0 9521334 1 5 PB Price: 15 euro
      What the critics say: A treasure trove of fact, anecdote, folklore and legend… an extremely well produced book, bulging with lively reading on the past, photos, old maps, facsimiles and transcription of documents, poems, quotations and what-not is all here- Books Ireland.
      Available at all good bookshops in Ireland.
      Signed copies from the author at: Tel. 071-66267 or joe_mcgowan@hotmail.com
      The Book Nest, Rockwood Parade, Sligo
      £15.50 -hardback
      -paperback
      booknest@eircom.net

    • Inishmurray: Gale Stone and Fire, 64pp
      Inishmurray: Gale Stone and Fire Published by Aeolus 1998.
      History and folklore of Inishmurray island, Co. Sligo.
      ISBN 0 9521334 2 3 PB Price: 6.50 euro
      This portrait of Inishmurray is the perfect companion for an understanding of the early Christian monuments there. But it is more than that — for it tells not only of holy men and marauding Danes but also of vengeful statues and supernatural disappearing islands, of Holy Wells that calmed the seas, of cursing stones and mystic fires that consumed the heretic, of cures, customs, poteen and peelers. It beguiles the mind!
      Available at all good bookshops in Ireland.
      Signed copies from the author: Tel. 071-66267 or email joe_mcgowan@hotmail.com

    • Echoes of a Savage Land,400pp
      Echoes of a Savage Land’, Mercier Press, 2001.
      Folklore and customs of Ireland.
      ISBN 1 85635 363 X PB & HB Price: 16 euro & 25 euro
      Echoes of a Savage Land is a magical doorway into lost worlds, a journey through a way of life unchanged for centuries, but now on the edge of extinction:
      Witch hares and Rhyming rats. Blood sacrifice and Burnt offeringsCorncrakes and Blackbird pie. Poteen stills and Féar Gortach.Cutting the cailleach and Harvest knots. Mummers and Wrenboys.Quern stones and Stirabout. Haunted houses and Satanic card games.
      Available at all good bookshops in Ireland. Signed copies from the author:
      Tel. 071-66267 or email joe_mcgowan@hotmail.com
      Available in USA from Irish Books and Media: Tel. 800 229 3505 or email: jirishbook@aol.com.
      Website: www.irishbook.com

    • Sligo Land of Yeats' Desire
      by John Cowell
      Paperback, 192 pages
      Published by Irish Amer Book Co
      Publication date: September 1990
      ISBN: 086278185X

    • Sligomen in the Great War 1914 - 1918
      by James McGuinn
      lists over 400 Sligomen killed in world war 1
      Fred Hannas` Bookshop,Dublin
      University libraries in Britain and Ireland


      The titles below are out of print.
      and will need to be found in a used bookstore.
      If anyone knows where these titles are available
      please write.

    • The Carrowmore excavations : excavation season,
      1980 Gèoran Burenhult

    • Connacht: the counties Galway, Mayo, Sligo,
      Leitrim and Roscommon in Ireland
      Seâan Jennett

    • Here's to their memory : profiles of distinguished Sligonians
      of bygone days
      John C. McTernan

    • Memory harbour : the port of Sligo : an outline of its growth
      and decline and its role as an emigration port
      John C. McTernan

    • North Leitrim glens : strolls and hill walks in
      North Leitrim & Sligo
      David Herman
      THE BOOK NEST, Rockwood Parade, Sligo
      £4.00 -paperback
      booknest@eircom.net

    • Olde Sligoe : aspects of town and county over 750 years
      John C. McTernan
      THE BOOK NEST, Rockwood Parade, Sligo
      £10.50 -paperback
      booknest@eircom.net

    • Power, politics, and land : early modern Sligo, 1568-1688
      Mary O'Dowd

    • Sligo : land of Yeats® desire
      John Cowell
      THE BOOK NEST, Rockwood Parade, Sligo
      £9.99 -paperback-
      booknest@eircom.net

    • Sligo : medical care in the past, 1800-1965
      Patrick J. Henry

    • Sligo : Sinbad's yellow shore
      T. A. Finnegan

    • The Wynnes of Sligo & Leitrim
      Winston Guthrie-Jones

    • The Yeats Country : A Guide to the Sligo District
      and Other Places in the West of
      Ireland Associated With the Life
      and Work of W. B. Yeats
      Sheelah Kirby / Published 1977

    • The Yeats family and the Pollexfens of Sligo
      William Michael Murphy

    • Yeats, Sligo Ans Ireland : Essays to Mark the 21st
      Yeat's International Summer School
      A.Norman Jeffares (Editor) / Published 1980