Sligo and Its Surroundings. A Descriptive and Pictorial Guide to the History, Scenery, Antiquities, and Places of Interest in and Around Sligo. Sligo: Kilgannon, 1926. First Edition. Pp xxii, 352. Publisher’s dark green cloth boards, title & device in gilt on upper cover. A fine bright copy.

Profusely illustrated with photographs, many taken by the author.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 

Tadhg Kilgannon (1862-1938) was a journalist, publisher, photographer and historian. He was editor of the Sligo Champion, a weekly newspaper & opened Sligo’s first cinema or picture house, ‘The Picture Theatre.’