Sligo

The Wellbeing Advantage

Liber — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:09:21 +0000

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Are you ready to transform your energy and resilience to thrive in work and life?The Wellbeing Advantage is a timely and transformative guide for modern professionals who want to feel more energised, focused and in control. Whether you’re seeking better balance, greater mental clarity or a smarter way to handle pressure, this book introduces seven simple science-backed habits to help you build resilience and protect your wellbeing, without overhauling your life. Dr Janine van Someren, a leading wellbeing consultant and expert in wearable technology, combines insights from high-performance coaching, behavioural change and the science of wellbeing to deliver results.

Sligo and the Great Famine, 1845-52 Walking Skeletons and Shadows

Liber — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:59:38 +0000

Sligo offers a unique setting for a study of the Great Famine and the book investigates the period from the first appearance of the blight to the immediate aftermath. The shifting, inept and often heartless government policies reflected different attitudes to famine relief and this impacted on the people in a very direct and often catastrophic way.

Sligo experienced considerable death and emigration in the years from 1845 to 1852; the second worst affected county in the country after Mayo, losing a third of its population in just a few short years. The reaction of local landlords and landholders to the suffering was also varied and the study explored the lengths to which the Famine offered an opportunity to some landlords to impose long-term policies on their estates.

Padraig Deignan has previously published ‘The Protestant Community in Sligo, 1914-49’ in 2010, ‘Land and People in Nineteenth Century Sligo: from Union to Local Government’ in 2015 and ‘Sligo in the Eighteenth Century’ in 2021.

LeafLight Moon

Liber — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:34:41 +0000

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LeafLight Moon - a novel of prehistoric Ireland

Sligo, 4000 BC: Closely researched and set in the rich prehistoric landscapes of Sligo and the north-west, LeafLight Moon tells the story of the fateful encounter between Ireland’s first farmers and the hunter-gatherers of the Hearth of MotherMountain – the mountain we call Knocknarea. For thousands of years, the hunter-gatherers of MotherMountain lived close to the earth, moving through the landscape with the seasons, following her rhythms and keeping her ways. They heard stories of a people who chopped down the greenwood and trapped animals behind fences, but these were only rumours, shiver-tales to share around the fire on long summer nights - until the day when two strangers arrived in a small boat, their skin as pale as downy-birch, their eyes as dark as the eyes of seals...

Water In The Desert, Fire In The Night

Liber — Sat, 31 May 2025 11:30:53 +0000

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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.

Sligo- The Irish Revolution,1912-23

Liber — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:16:22 +0000

Using a wide array of sources and interviews, Michael Farry has produced a balanced, comprehensive and absorbing study of county Sligo from 1912 when the Irish Party controlled all political affairs to 1922–3 when the county saw considerable action during the civil war. This wide-ranging study offers fascinating new insights into the Irish Revolution and details how the county moved from being one of the most loyal to the Irish Party to one of the best-organised Sinn Féin counties. Farry is especially good on how both organised unionism and the strong labour movement in Sligo reacted to the rise of Sinn Féin, its election victory in 1918 and the subsequent Truce, Treaty and civil war. His use of the recently released BMH accounts as well as British military sources results in a richly detailed examination of the IRA campaign and the British reaction. It examines the superior attitude of the IRA towards ‘mere politicians’ during the Truce period and explains why Sligo saw so much conflict during the civil war.

The Wardrobe Department

Liber — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:52:34 +0000

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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.

Love These Days

Liber — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:05:28 +0000

Only love will save us ... Tara Leonard returns after seven years abroad as a humanitarian aid worker to the island where she grew up on the northwest coast of Sligo. Having fled Creevy Island after a wounding marital breakup, she is back only to finalise her divorce. But as her stay on Creevy unexpectedly lengthens, events build to a dangerous reckoning where every ounce of her resourcefulness is tested.

LISTOGHIL A SEASONAL ALIGNMENT? (Revised 2023)

Liber — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:59:45 +0000

Listoghil, the central monument and focal point of the Carrowmore passage tomb complex close to Sligo in north-west Ireland, has been ruined, excavated and eventually partially restored. However, the chamber is preserved in its original position. The author examines the hypothesis that Listoghil was deliberately aligned to mark seasonal transitions equivalent to astronomical cross-quarter days. The methods include a horizon survey, the isolation of directional features in the monument, and computer modelling of the monument and skyscape. Folklore and legends around seasonal transits, locally, in Ireland, and in many and varied (and independently arising) contexts at temperate latitudes of the world, are seen as information sources complementary to data gathering and observation.

Old Istanbul and Other Essays

Liber — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:29:46 +0000

This is the first book of essays by a major new Irish non-fiction writer from the West of Ireland, comparable to the celebrated Kilkenny essayist Hubert Butler first published by The Lilliput Press and subsequently widely acclaimed. McCarthy’s writing is no less distinguished than Butler’s.

Gerard McCarthy writes of the extraordinarily subtle mix of his essays: “Perhaps the Philosophers who had the most enduring influence on me were the contrary figures of Nietzsche and Marcus Aurelius. The reading of each was an antidote to the other, but I was drawn to both by an instinctive affinity. They were augmented subsequently by the gargantuan figure of Michel de Montaigne. My interest has continued to be in the region where Philosophy merges into Literature, with a preference for a language of metaphor rather than of abstract reasoning.”

McCarthy continues: “These eight essays were written over the course of more than a decade. The fact that they have all been published in the one place, by the good offices of Irish Pages, has allowed me see the continuity between them, and to hope that they might be seen by the reader to form a unity.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gerard McCarthy (1949-2022) was born and reared in Dublin, and spent most of his adult life in Sligo, where he worked as social worker. He studied Philosophy at University College Dublin, with an early interest in Nietzsche and Marcus Aurelius, augmented subsequently by Michel de Montaigne. His first published essays – now collected here – have all appeared in issues of Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. He divided his time between his Sligo residence, an old schoolhouse on Collanmore Island in Clew Bay, and various travels to the Mediterranean and other peripheries of Europe. Old Istanbul & Other Essays was his first book.

The Tide Is Coming

Liber — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:15:35 +0000

The Tide is Coming – a book of Coney Island in Sligo Bay by Maura Gilligan – is a beautiful limited-edition publication containing prose, poetry, interviews, photographs and artwork. As the title of this book suggests, the rhythm of the tides has, for centuries, dictated the rhythm of life on Coney Island. During his lifetime, Islander John McGowan called out the warning “the tide is coming” countless times, ensuring that visitors would cross the causeway safely before channels at either side closed the strand passage and made an island of his shores. This little island is said to have given its name to Coney Island in New York! Its ancient name, Inismulclohy, can be found in maps, records and annals. Contents Insightful poetry and prose reflect the author’s thoughts as she moves across the Island in space and time. Author-transcribed interviews with Island elder John McGowan form an integral part of this book, illuminating eight decades of life in a place inhabited by John’s ancestors since 1789. There are echoes here of life on other offshore Irish islands, now uninhabited. Photographer James Fraher’s haunting black and white images, together with Catherine Fanning’s remarkable paintings, prints and line drawings, add visual depth and magic. Special Features The book itself is a work of art; a striking hardback cover collage is enhanced by timeless quarter binding, head and tail bands, marker ribbon and rich-coloured endpapers. Sumptuous Munken paper provides the perfect backdrop for superb illustrations and exceptional writing. Folded within the pages of this book is a surprise - an A3 loose-leaf ‘Map of Coney Island in Sligo Bay’, which can be framed. Created from an old and fragile line-drawn original, the current version of this map illustrates locations on and around the Island, some of which still carry their original Irish names. The Tide is Coming is a wonderful history of an Irish island and a perfect gift.