Word: sligo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inishmurray is a 100-acre sliver of rock off the northwest coast of Ireland's County Sligo. In World War I, a British destroyer mistook its low-lying shape for a German submarine, let fly with a torpedo. The explosion shook the island up a bit but it failed to deflect the inhabitants from the pursuit of customs stemming back to the time of Saint Columba, who is said to have stopped off at Inishmurray on his way to convert Scotland to Christianity...
Owen J. Goldrick had come all the way from County Sligo, Ireland to prospect for gold in the West. But when the boys in the back room heard him talk and listened to his flow of Latin, they dubbed him "Professor" there & then, took up a $250 collection, and told him that he was going to open and teach the town's first school...