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The First Irish Coffee

  • Curator: Noel OConnell
  • July 19, 2017
  • 1 Pages
  • School: Scoil Na Mbraithre

A letter from a gentleman who sampled the first Irish coffee in Foynes, Co. Limerick.

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  • Authors:
  • Pádraig Vaughan
  • Sources:
  • Visit to Foynes Flying Boat Museum, Co. Limerick.
  • Collections:
  • Categories:
  • Human Life
  • Sub Categories:
  • 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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  • Authors:
  • Tom Finn and David O'Gara http://irishfamily.toweyclan.com/
  • Sources:
  • http://irishfamily.toweyclan.com/ Cloontia Families http://www.fisfilmproject.ie/film-archive/fff/
  • Collections:
  • Categories:
  • Livelihood and Household support
  • The Community
  • Sub Categories:
  • Games I Play
  • My Home District
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Stories from 'In-Home'

  • Curator: Aoife McDonnell
  • March 22, 2019
  • 11 Pages
  • School: Portumna Community School

Pages include the myths and stories of what it was like growing up in the place called 'In-Home' Narrated by father of interviewer. Born in 1950 and had 8 siblings older than him.

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  • Authors to the story have expressed a quest to remain unnamed.
  • Sources:
  • Verbal record from the man who wishes to remain without a name. Photography from the house visited.
  • Categories:
  • Livelihood and Household support
  • Sub Categories:
  • An Old Story
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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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