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Following the Lifeboat disaster in Kingstown [now Dún Laoghaire] on Christmas Eve 1895, a financial Trust was established to dispense assistance to the families of the fifteen men who lost their lives. This book contains copies of correspondence from the Trust's secretary to the

Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster 1895 | Palme Shipwreck | Kingstown Town Commissioners

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Object Kingstown Life-Boat Disaster Trust Letter Bookcover

Accents, Bras and Handbags (4mins 03secs) I first showed this clip in front of a group of Traveller women and men in 2018 and they burst themselves laughing at it. Why? Well firstly because the two women Alice Berry and Margaret Connors are funny and secondly they could relate to

Travellers | Irish Travellers | Irish Travellers

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Object Accents, Bras and Handbagscover

The May Bush and May Eve Mass (3mins 43secs) On the first of May summer officially begins in Ireland and, in centuries old fashion, it's also the time that many people in Wexford will gather their painted egg shells, ribbons and bunches of flowers, to decorate their May Bush. The

Travellers | Irish Travellers | Irish Travellers

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Object The May Bush and May Eve Masscover

The Hare (4mins 18secs) This clip opens up with Nan and Bridget talking about the fear of a pregnant woman coming across a hare as the fear was that the child would be born with a "hare's lip". Growing up my mother always told us the exact same story of a hare crossing a pregnant

Travellers | Irish Travellers | Irish Travellers

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Object The Harecover