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Helen McCarthy

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 14 Pages
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  • Local Heroes
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Enda Byrt

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 10 Pages
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Basketball interview

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Bill Casey

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 13 Pages
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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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  • Bill Casey, Noel Keating, Patrick Coffey
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  • https://ibb-history.blogspot.com/p/dublin-saint-vincents.html
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  • Sports and Pastimes
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  • Local Heroes
  • Games I Play
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getting in the light

  • Curator: julia
  • February 22, 2018
  • 2 Pages
  • School: Rathfarnham Educate Together

eletristey

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  • julia sweeney
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  • Pictures used with written permission from esbarchives.ie. Not for further reproduction.
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  • Human Life
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  • An Old Story
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getting in the light

  • Curator: lola
  • February 22, 2018
  • 1 Pages
  • School: Rathfarnham Educate Together

story of a family "getting in the light"

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  • Lola
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  • Pictures used with written permission from esbarchives.ie. Not for further reproduction.
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The switch

  • Curator: leoMc
  • February 22, 2018
  • 1 Pages
  • School: Rathfarnham Educate Together

I am about to flick the switch,when I look at everyone's face and there expression. What do they look like?

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  • Leo Mc Gowan
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  • Pictures used with written permission from esbarchives.ie. Not for further reproduction.
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  • Livelihood and Household support
  • The Community
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  • An Old Story
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The History of Dublin 4

  • Curator: David McAndrew
  • October 27, 2017
  • 10 Pages
  • School: Sn Paroiste Maitiu Nfa

5th class have been researching our school and areas of interest in the local area. We have spoken to family members, members of the local community and our local historical society.

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  • 5th Class St. Matthew's N.S.
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  • Various books, interviews, and websites.
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  • Livelihood and Household support
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  • Old Schools
  • Local Place-names
  • Local Poets
  • My Home District
  • Local Monuments
  • Old Houses
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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/
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  • http://irishfamily.toweyclan.com/ Cloontia Families http://www.fisfilmproject.ie/film-archive/fff/
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Sam Maguire

  • Curator: H O Connell
  • January 02, 2017
  • 6 Pages
  • School: Togher N S

The name on the All- Ireland football trophy is well known all over Ireland and yet few people know who Sam Maguire was. Learn about Sam Maguire - from Dunmanway, Co. Cork.

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  • Helen O Connell
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A Story of Trams: From Old to New

  • Curator: Karl Meehan
  • December 13, 2016
  • 13 Pages
  • School: St. Thomas Junior N S

Major changes have occurred in the tram network over the last century. This story looks at the old Dublin and Blessington Steam Tram and the new modern tram system known as the Luas.

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  • Room 5, Second Class
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  • The Dublin and Blessington Steam Tram: A Pictorial and Social History by Aidan Cruise. Proud to Live in Tallaght: An activity book for pupils in Tallaght schools by Dublin West Education Centre. www.luas.ie http://gofree.indigo.ie/~nigelo/dbstframes.htm http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/transport/dublin-blessington-steam-/ http://www.luascrosscity.ie/
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  • Communications and Trade
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