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Helen McCarthy

  • Curator: Patrick Coffey
  • June 18, 2021
  • 14 Pages
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  • Sports and Pastimes
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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
  • Historical Tradition
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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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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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The Desmond Hall Newcastle West Co. Limerick

  • Curator: Noel OConnell
  • July 18, 2017
  • 5 Pages
  • School: Scoil Na Mbraithre

A brief history of the Fitzgeralds of Desmond and their castle in Newcastle West.

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  • Pádraig Vaughan
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  • Guided tour and information given at the castle itself.
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  • Historical Tradition
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  • Local Monuments
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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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  • The Community
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  • Local Monuments
  • Local Ruins
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