As part of their Decade of Centenaries programme, Sligo Libraries created a series of short Online
Lectures. In the video below Dr. Padraig Deignan gives a short presentation on Nurse Linda Kearns,
native of Dromard, Co. Sligo, arrested November 1920 transporting firearms for the IRA.
On the 26th June 1920, one hundred years ago, Frank Carty made his legendary escape from Sligo Gaol. His
was assisted by Billy Pilkington, Seamus Devins, Michael Nevin, J. P. Brennan and others from the Sligo
Battalions. This presentation by Dr. Padraig Deignan tells the dramatic story of that escape, and of the
life of an adventurous, colourful and committed Sligo man.