Qualla: Sligo Grammar School https://qualla.com/sligo-grammar-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/u/sligo-grammar-school-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sligo Grammar School https://qualla.com/sligo-grammar-school Sligo Grammar School: Introduction https://qualla.com/sligo-grammar-school/ Photo credit en:The.Q, CC BY-SA 2.5. Among the Connacht rugby schools, Sligo Grammar has lately become something close to a dynasty - three Connacht Senior Cups in a row from 2022 through 2024, thirteen in total. But the school's deeper claim on attention is that it is, in some form or other, more than four centuries old. The painter Jack Butler Yeats studied here in the 1880s. Oliver Goldsmith, author of The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer, was a pupil at the Elphin Diocesan School in the 1730s - and the Elphin school later merged into what is now Sligo Grammar. The institution has been quietly turning out artists, editors, translators, and props forwards for longer than the United States has existed.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/u/sligo-grammar-school-wp/gc9u-sligo-grammar-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sligo Grammar School: A School Built From Other Schools https://qualla.com/sligo-grammar-school/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. The history is a layered thing. The present Sligo Grammar incorporates part of the Charter School set up by Royal Charter in 1752 and closed in 1843. It also incorporates the Diocesan School in Elphin, which moved to the Charter School buildings in 1862, bringing with it the ghos...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/u/sligo-grammar-school-wp/gc9u-sligo-grammar-school-a-school-built-from-other-schools.mp3 0:06 2 full Sligo Grammar School: Goldsmith, Yeats, Smyllie https://qualla.com/sligo-grammar-school/ Photo credit Geofreund1, CC BY-SA 4.0. The roll of old pupils punches above the school's weight. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) studied at the Elphin school that would later merge with the Grammar; he went on to write some of the most enduring poetry and drama of his century. Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), brother of W.B., ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/u/sligo-grammar-school-wp/gc9u-sligo-grammar-school-goldsmith-yeats-smyllie.mp3 0:06 3 full Sligo Grammar School: The Mall, the Hermitage, the Choir https://qualla.com/sligo-grammar-school/ Photo credit Niallio77, CC BY-SA 3.0. The school sits on The Mall in Sligo, north of the Garavogue river, in a cluster of Victorian buildings expanded in 1971, 1985, 2002, and most recently in 2012 when a new library and classroom block opened. It is co-educational, fee-paying, and run under Church of Ireland managem...

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