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Kitchen Power Audio Station 2: ESB Demonstrators

Listen to these clips from the oral history interviews, with Irish women and ESB staff talking about their memories of signing up for rural electrification:
 
Margaret interviewed by Eleanor Calnan about buying electrical appliances in the ESB shop in Youghal, County Cork, April 2018
Esther interviewed by Alison Mac Cormaic about attending a cooking demonstration in Scariff, County Clare, November 2017
Nora Hayes interviewed by Alison Mac Cormaic about buying a fridge from the ESB, November 2017
Mary Harvey interviewed by Maura McGuinness about the ESB demonstrators encouraging women on Achill Island to buy electric cookers and to set up B&B businesses, December 2016
Ciunas Bunworth interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about the role of the demonstrator in building confidence about electricity amongst rural Irish women, March 2017
Delo interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about demonstrating spin dryers to the public, June 2017
Mary Rose O’Donovan interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about demonstrating at ESB exhibition stands, December 2017
Mary Lyons interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about competing in the 1968 Schools Bread Baking Championship, April 2018
Catherine Marshall interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about her grandmother, Elizabeth Gorey, who won the 1958 adults Bread Baking Championships, November 2017

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