School and Country Life in the 1930s curated by dermot dillon

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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 fetching water from the well.

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Cloontia Life

Life in rural Ireland at the start of the 20th century was tough!

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