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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...
...winning jockey was Irishman Leo McMorrow, a pro from Mount Shannon, County Sligo. Said he: "It's a once in a lifetime. Lord Mildmay? Poor beggar, he's a heart of fire, but he'll never make...
...expressed wish of William Butler Yeats will be fulfilled, now that the war is over. His body, buried these nine years in the south of France where he died, will be taken home (in an Eire destroyer) and reburied in a grave in Drumcliffe Cemetery, County Sligo...
...Nothing But Literature." "Willie" Yeats was born in the ghost-rich region of Sligo in 1865, of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in the most Catholic of nations, a minority man from the start. He was a wretched schoolchild, slow to read, timorous, bullied. But he learned from his grandparents the grand patriarchal images which never left him, and from poor relations and kitchen servants the supernatural and prehistoric lore which was both to illumine and befuddle his poetry; and he learned from his magnificent father the lesson which an artist must learn: "Self-interest and self-preservation are the death...
...once. Accordingly they set up what must have been an extremely malodorous fish-drying centre. This was excavated last season by a Harvard group under Hallam Leonard Movius Jr. About this time the Irish were learning from contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to build huge mausoleums. In County Sligo another Harvard party under Hugh O'Neill Hencken unearthed a mound of stone 180 ft. long, covering five burial chambers and enclosing a sort of courtyard where funerals were probably held. The dead were cremated and buried with pottery bowls and stone tools...