Families of County Sligo

Families of County Sligo

Yeats country, Knocknarea, Carrowmore, the Ó Conchobhair Sligigh and the Mac Donnchadha of Tír Oilella.

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Families of County Sligo

YeatsThe Drumcliffe-Sligo Anglo-Irish, and the poet who imagined a country into being.

Historic ties to Sligo

Families with historic but not core ground in this county.

Champions of County Sligo

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Sligo.

W. B. YeatsThe Sligo-rooted poet who founded the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory in 1904, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 as the first Irish laureate, and made the English-language poem the central instrument of the Irish national imagination.