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getting in the light

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

Its a old story about my grandad and when eletricity came and he retires and gets deprested its a sad story but the end gets a bit happier.

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  • Connie Hannigan
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  • Pictures used with written permission from esbarchives.ie. Not for further reproduction.
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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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a new beggining

  • Curator: izzy
  • February 22, 2018
  • 3 Pages
  • School: Rathfarnham Educate Together

when it first came

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  • izzy
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Let There Be Light.....................................

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

This is a diary entry told from the perspective of a six year old girl who's house is getting connected to electricity in 1946.

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  • My name is Amy.
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Getting in the Light

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

My story is about my great grandad.

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  • Ruby
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  • Grandad Pictures used with written permission from esbarchives.ie. Not for further reproduction.
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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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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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Getting in the light

  • Curator: toby
  • February 22, 2018
  • 3 Pages
  • School: Rathfarnham Educate Together

this is a story of when electrification comes to a town in Roscommon and changes a boys life forever.

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  • Toby Bond
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  • esbarchives.ie then there was light photos and video.
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Getting In The Lite

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

My Story About The ESB

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  • The Amazing Christopher Admirand
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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.
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  • Verbal record from the man who wishes to remain without a name. Photography from the house visited.
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