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Danny O'Connor

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • January 09, 2024
  • 20 Pages
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Interview with Danny O'Connor who has played basketball for Ireland, refereed the game, served as commissioner and has been involved with the game on many different levels


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Paddy O'Flynn

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • November 26, 2023
  • 10 Pages
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Administrator, referee and founder of St Colm’s, Paddy O'Flynn shares his memories of basketball in Limerick. Interview with Noel Keating and Patrick Coffey.

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Seanie Burrows

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • November 24, 2023
  • 11 Pages
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Seanie Burrows, former Kerry footballer and basketball player/coach talks about his earliest memories of basketball in Kerry.


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Neptune Basketball

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • November 24, 2023
  • 17 Pages
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Jim O’Donoghue, Niall O’Riordan, Billy Kelly and Michael Finn share their memories of basketball in Cork. Interview with Noel Keating and Patrick Coffey.


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  • Noel Keating & Patrick Coffey
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Seanie Murphy Interview

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 20 Pages
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Paul Meany Interview

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 10 Pages
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  • Noel Keating, Paul Meany, Patrick Coffey
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Mary Baneham

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 14 Pages
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Helen McCarthy

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 14 Pages
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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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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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