Sligo Artists

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Water In The Desert, Fire In The Night
€16.00
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Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time. Someone leaves and it’s the end of the world. Someone comes back and it’s the end of the world.

Somebody puts their cock in you and it’s the end of the world. Somebody stops putting their cock in you and it’s the end of the world. Here is a novel about mothering, wolves, bicycles, midwifery, post-apocalyptic feminism, gold, hunger and hope.

It’s about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and an Irishman who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. It’s about the porousness of the female bodily experience, the challenges of being an empiricist with a sample size of one, what’s worth knowing, what’s worth living, and the necessity of irrationality. It’s about the fact that the world ends all the time, and it’s about what to try to do next.

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The Wardrobe Department
€16.95
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST DEBUT OF 2025

Mairead works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible bullying of the show’s producer.

But, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairead remains in her windy, hedge-filled home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London, she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairead is caught, running from the girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she’d hoped to become.

Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present – and asking what comes next.

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A Mirror Looking Out
€12.00
FERRIS, GORDON

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Tell Me What I Am
€15.95

Deena Garvey disappeared in 2004. She left behind a daughter and a sister. Deena’s daughter grows up in the country.

She learns how to hunt, when to seed the garden, how to avoid making her father angry. Never to ask about her absent mother. Deena’s sister stays stuck in the city, getting desperate.

She knows the man responsible for her sister’s disappearance, but she can’t prove it. Not yet. Over fourteen years, four hundred miles apart, these two women slowly begin to unearth the secrets and lies at the heart of their family, and the history of power and control that has shaped them both in such different ways.

But can they reach each other in time? And will the truth finally answer the question of their lives: What really happened to Deena Garvey?

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Too Big For His Roots
€12.50
Robert O Connor was not expecting cheering crowds to greet him on his return to
Dromahair. Few there were likely to view him as a war hero. Nobody believed he had
acted out of principle when he enlisted, as the man had never served any cause other
than his own. That did not bother Robert. If anything, he revelled in the notoriety.
After all, he was destined for bigger and better things than his home village could
offer.

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Trespasses
€12.50
* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 *
* WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 *
* SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION *
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 *
* AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022 *
* A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.

If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.

As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like ‘petrol bomb’ and ‘rubber bullets’. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.

Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.

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10-Kieran Quinn + The Theme Night Ensemble
€20.00
A hardcover coffee table book, a comprehensive pictorial account of the Theme Night story (adult and teenage) over the last 10 years. A few good stories in there too.

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That Old Country Music
€12.50
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LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE’One of the best collections you’ll read this year’ Sunday Times’Wild, witty stories . . .

Exhilarating’ ObserverIn this rapturous story collection we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories affirm Kevin Barry as one of the world’s most accomplished and gifted writers, and show an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.

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Station To Station
€13.00
Diplomat Jack Lennon is posted to Spain in 2008 as the wheels are coming off the Spanish – and Irish – property boom. On the trail of a missing Irish government minister Jack encounters a coterie of property magnates, former celebrities, desperate bankers the remnants of Ireland’s ‘wine-geese’ and Franco’s Spain.

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Wild Flowers at Benbulben
€3.50
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Wildflowers at Benbulben

This square 120mm x 120mm size greeting card is an image of an original art piece by Sligo artist Alison Hunter. The original art work was hand needle felted using wool fibres and hand stitched details. It features Benbulben Mountain and Irish wildflowers in the foreground as seen along the Wild Atlantic Way.

This greeting card is perfect for any occasion, as it has been left blank inside for your own personal message. Printed onto 350gsm card. It comes with a white envelope and is packaged in a cellophane sleeve.

Designed and printed in Sligo, Ireland

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Size -12mm x 12mm

Greeting cards – prints taken from original felted art pieces

Alison Hunter is an artist from Sligo, Ireland. Alison’s work is inspired both by the Irish built and natural landscape. She is drawn to exploring everyday objects and instilling new life into them through the use of traditional and contemporary techniques. Found broken tableware is a source of inspiration for Alison as it acts as a reminder of the Irish vernacular heritage and past. By creating a new function for the plate as an art piece, old memories are preserved in the process while new memories take root in its new form.

“I create art works through the interpretation and re-imagining of patterns on found plates. Building on its original form and exaggerating elements, I combine contrasting textures of found plate pieces and soft wool fibres using traditional wet felting and contemporary needle felting techniques”

She also creates a series of original landscapes and seascapes, Irish wildlife insect collection and abstract pieces using Irish tweed and wool

Alison exhibits her work nationally. In 2016 her work was selected for the RDS Design and Craft Awards Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland. She holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Heritage Studies and a Diploma in Textiles and is a member of both the Design & Craft Council of Ireland and Made in Sligo.

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Blackrock Lighthouse and Knocknarea Card
€3.50
Greeting cards – prints taken from original felted art pieces

Size — 12mm x 12mm

Alison Hunter is an artist from Sligo, Ireland. Alison’s work is inspired both by the Irish built and natural landscape. She is drawn to exploring everyday objects and instilling new life into them through the use of traditional and contemporary techniques. Found broken tableware is a source of inspiration for Alison as it acts as a reminder of the Irish vernacular heritage and past. By creating a new function for the plate as an art piece, old memories are preserved in the process while new memories take root in its new form.

“I create art works through the interpretation and re-imagining of patterns on found plates. Building on its original form and exaggerating elements, I combine contrasting textures of found plate pieces and soft wool fibres using traditional wet felting and contemporary needle felting techniques”

She also creates a series of original landscapes and seascapes, Irish wildlife insect collection and abstract pieces using Irish tweed and wool

Alison exhibits her work nationally. In 2016 her work was selected for the RDS Design and Craft Awards Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland. She holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Heritage Studies and a Diploma in Textiles and is a member of both the Design & Craft Council of Ireland and Made in Sligo.

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Powered to Fall, Empowered to Rise
€10.00
About the Book

I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 30. At the same time I was looking to start a new life in Australia and had just met Des (my fiancé) while working at an Irish bar.

Des stood by me through this illness and supported me in ways I could have never imagined with his love. After having to cancel our wedding in 2018 and give up work, we finally found our happy place in 2020.

The love that Des showed me during this time and the illness inspired me to write a book so that I could help others who are also going through a difficult time. The book writes about the lessons I learnt in my own life on health, wealth, love and happiness.

It is my hope that in sharing lessons from my own life that it will help others and inspire others that love will always shine through no matter how dark our days are. This book has been written from my heart to yours.

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Sligo Field Club Journal Vol 6
€20.00
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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In Nearly Every House
€20.00
This book contains biographies along with
black and white photographs featuring
over one hundred traditional musicians
from counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon
and Mayo. Through the author’s unique
personal and musical connection to the
musicians of the North Connacht region,
he uses a conversational interview style to
draw out their stories, revealing both the
individual and collective experience within
that tradition.

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The Rest
€10.00
The Rest’ is the fifth studio album from Pearse McGloughlin and the third with his band, Nocturnes (Enda Roche & Billy Donohue). Emerging in the shadow of a circling chaos, The Rest is, on a personal level, a series of reflections on and explorations of our own small place in the world.

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