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. Pp xxii, 352. Publisher’s dark green cloth boards, title & device in gilt on upper cover. A nice bright copy.

Profusely illustrated with photographs, many taken by the author.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Also with autographed letter signed, on his business stationary, loosely inserted.

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.’