Leitrim Folk Tales
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LEITRIM GUARDIAN 2023
€15.00Leitrim Guardian 2023 is the the 55th edition of one of the longest running county-focused publications in Ireland. The journal provides an annual snapshot of life in Leitrim.
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My Tale Untold
€10.00MY TALE UNTOLD
Inspired by true life characters and events, ‘My Tale Untold’, follows the story of a young Sligo girl in the 1800s who came to be imprisoned in Sligo Gaol and her perilous journey to freedom. -
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Rebellion in the Village
€10.00Rebellion in the Village, a new novel from Kids? Own Publishing Partnership, launches 13 November. This historical novel has been researched, written and illustrated by a team of 11 and 12 year old children in Scoil Ursula Primary School, Sligo.
Set in eighteenth century France, just as the Bastille is stormed and the injustices of life for poor people are everywhere to be seen, the story follows the adventures of 14 year old Leon, who is found at the scene of a robbery in the village of Pockseaux and flees to the forest. Here he encounters a band of young agitators hiding from the law and plotting rebellion.
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The Frightened Little Flower Bud
€8.50The story is about a little flower bud who is so afraid of all the things she hears on the wind that she hides behind her leaves and petals imagining all sorts of scary things that might happen to her. Because of her fears, she doesn?t want to bloom –
thereby preventing herself from reaching her full potential as a beautiful flower. However, eventually she blooms and realises that all of her fears were unfounded. -
The Powelsborough Lassies
€15.00Tracklisting
1 The Dublin Reel/The Three Merry Sisters (2.34) 2 Murray’s One and Two (2.07) 3 The Powelsborough Lasies/Frank Walshe’s (2.45) 4 Lord Gordan’s Reel (3.40) 5 A St?r Mo Chro? (3.29) 6 The Duke of Leinster/Ah Surely (3.28) 7 The Blackthorn Stick/Reidy Johnston’s (2.43) 8 Sarah Ann O Connor’s/The Mother’s Lament (3.28) 9 Lament for Peter Walsh (3.37) 10 Roaring Mary/The Graf Spree (3.16) 11 The Clare Reel/The First Month of Spring (2.17) 12 The Chaffpool Post/Memories of Sligo (4.26) 13 The Hunter’s Purse/The Sligo Maid (3.28) 14 ?na Bh?n (5.15) 15 The Galway Rambler/Five Mile Chase/Dennis Devaney’s (2.42) 16 The Concert Reel/Custom Gap (3.08) 17 Pat Sweeney’s Favourite/Paddy Carty’s (3.02) 18 The Old Wheels of the World/Mc Gowan’s Favourite/The Moving Bog of Powelsborough (2.58) 19 The Croppy Boy (5.42) 20 Drowsey Maggie/Toss the Feathers (1.49) 21 The Stonepark Reel/The Templehouse Reel (2.02) 22 The Geese in the Bog (2.34) 23 The Bush in Bloom/Touch Me If You Dare (2.21) -
THE TRAVELS OF SORROW
€12.50The last book of poems written by the late Dermot Healy is a fitting tribute to his work.
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TOWERS
€14.99Tucan- Towers CD
This second album comes six years after their first studio album (Aliquot Strings 2009) and it is their first since the band expanded to include brass and strings. Produced by Torsten Kinsella (God Is An Astronaut), these new compositions are subtle and melodic though cinematic in their scope and arrangement, and represent a musical evolution for the band.
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Yeats in Love
€19.95
Yeats in LoveAnyone familiar with Sligo will be familiar with Yeats. And anyone familiar with both should also be aware of Annie West, the illustrator, who has penned many pictures?of Yeats in humorous poses that are in homes & shops?around Sligo. In Yeats in Love Annie presents her illustrations in book form with words from Yeats, those who knew Yeats and Annie herself. An enjoyable, funny read and the picture’s themselves do indeed paint a 1,000 words.
