Potato Famine Sligo Info?

TequilaMockingBird

Anyone have any idea where the Soup Kitchen was located in Sligo during the famine? Google is giving me nothing.

Any information appreciated.

sligopark

the chap who put this together might be able to help you out

http://www.irishholocaust.org/

sligopark

cheers for the thanks - welcome

saywhatyousee

sligopark wrote: »

cheers for the thanks - welcome

great read you should post that link in after hours id say it would go down well;)

Stevedore

I think it was where Old Quay Court is now, actual building was tossed in the early 90's, very sad, I couldn't believe it when I saw the Harbour Bar gone, it features in a couple of Jack B Yeats drawings, it seems people just want the town to be a giant car-park with British super stores amd slum apartments

sligopark

saywhatyousee wrote: »

great read you should post that link in after hours id say it would go down well;)

love to - but how would I introduce it? Not being cheeky why don't you yourself?

dardevle

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Mc Ternan's "in Sligo long ago" makes mention of numerous soup kitchens at various locations, including the Lissadell estate and one on the Quays operated by a merchant called Delaney ...(summer of '47 there were 53,000, or half the population of Sligo recieving daily rations:()


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sligopark

more stuff of interest..

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=69920066&postcount=51

http://www.sligoheritage.com/archpomano.htm

all the best

SP

TequilaMockingBird

Brilliant, thanks so much for all your help. That's just what I needed.

TequilaMockingBird

dardevle wrote: »

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Mc Ternan's "in Sligo long ago" makes mention of numerous soup kitchens at various locations, including the Lissadell estate and one on the Quays operated by a merchant called Delaney ...(summer of '47 there were 53,000, or half the population of Sligo recieving daily rations:()


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Somewhere in my extensive reading last night, I found this:

While it was expected that the soup kitchen scheme would aliviate some of the problem, boilers for making soup had not arrived in Sligo even as late as April of 1847.


http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/famine.html

UrbanSea

I hate it when it's referred to as a famine. There was no famine,it was potato blight.

Some good research Tequila.

TequilaMockingBird

Or the Irish Holocaust, The Great Hunger, An Gorta Mor, The Great Famine (irony?) or The Staravation apparently. It's a minefield

UrbanSea

You forgot the Genocide of the Irish.

eire-kp

If its of interst to you there was a workhouse in Dromore West. The ruins are still there half of it is converted into a house.

SligoBrewer

Get hold of a copy of this, it's tremendously detailed.

Simi

"Jewish Oxygen Famine of 1939 - 1945" - Ha, i'm gonna use that one.