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Bill Casey

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 13 Pages
  • School:

Bill Casey is known to GAA followers as a winner of an All-Ireland medal and football medal with Dublin in 1963. He is known to basketball people as the founder of the St. Vincent's basketball club and is someone who pla ...

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  • Authors:
  • Bill Casey, Noel Keating, Patrick Coffey
  • Sources:
  • https://ibb-history.blogspot.com/p/dublin-saint-vincents.html
  • Categories:
  • Sports and Pastimes
  • Sub Categories:
  • Local Heroes
  • Games I Play
  • An Old Story
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School and Country Life in the 1930s

  • Curator: dermot dillon
  • July 02, 2017
  • 3 Pages
  • School: St. Colman's N S

98 year old local man recalls his schooldays in the 1930s; walking to school in his feet, saving turf with the slane, playing "banging buttions" at break time, brown bread and milk in a glass bottle for lunch and fetchin ...

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  • Tom Finn and David O'Gara http://irishfamily.toweyclan.com/
  • Sources:
  • http://irishfamily.toweyclan.com/ Cloontia Families http://www.fisfilmproject.ie/film-archive/fff/
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  • Categories:
  • Livelihood and Household support
  • The Community
  • Sub Categories:
  • Games I Play
  • My Home District
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Changing Environment

  • Curator: AdamL
  • September 28, 2016
  • 5 Pages
  • School: Our Lady Of Wayside N S

Climate Change, urbanisation, and other factors are starting to have an effect on our natural world in 2016. This story covers elements of our natural environment, that we know are under threat and records them for revie ...

  • Authors:
  • AdamL
  • Sources:
  • Video, Internet, YouTube
  • Categories:
  • Settlement and Dwelling
  • Nature
  • Sub Categories:
  • Severe Weather
  • My Home District
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