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Kitchen Power Audio Station 6: Memories

Listen to these clips from the oral history interviews, with Irish women reflecting on their experiences of rural electrification from the perspective of the 21st century:

Maura McGuinness interviewed by Mary O’Reilly about her perspective on rural electrification from the 21st century, Castlebar, County Mayo, December 2016
Eileen Aylward interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about her grandmother’s reaction to electric light in Kilkenny, June 2017
Rosemary McCarville interviewed by Geraldine O’Connor about her reflections on living with electricity, Clones, County Monaghan, February 2017
Ann Gabbett interviewed by Eleanor Calnan about her memories of buying appliances in Mitchelstown, County Cork, April 2018
Mary Harvey interviewed by Maura McGuinness about her family’s American fridge in Achill, County Mayo, which is still in use today, December 2016
Bernie Hodnett interviewed by Eleanor Calnan about her parents getting a GEC cooker from Macroom, County Cork, April 2018
Brenda Manley interviewed by Geraldine O’Connor about electrical appliances given as wedding presents, Clones, County Monaghan, February 2017
Breda McDonald interviewed by Eleanor Calnan about her memories of the electric iron, April 2018
Nora interviewed by Alison Mac Cormaic about her family’s reaction to getting their first electric kettle in Gort, County Galway, November 2017
Mary O’Reilly interviewed by Maura McGuinness about the attitude of returned emigrants to rural electrification in Ballintubber, County Mayo, December 2016
Mary Dwyer interviewed by Brigid O’Brien about coming home from Australia to an unelectrified house in West Cork, March 2018
Anne Fitzpatrick interviewed by Geraldine O’Connor about the differences she saw in women’s lives on returning home from England to Clones, County Monaghan, February 2017
Noreen Durken interviewed by Mary O’Connor about seeing both sides of life before and after electricity, Castlebar, County Mayo, December 2016

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