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Kitchen Power Audio Station 3: Advice Literature, the ICA and Community Groups

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:
 
Mary O’Leary interviewed by Eleanor Calnan about the demonstration kitchen installed in her house in Drimoleague, County Cork, March 2018
Delo interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about the relationship between the ESB demonstrators and the ICA, June 2017
Connie McEvoy interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about attending a six week ICA/ESB domestic science training course at An Grianan in the late 1950s, October 2017
Mamo McDonald interviewed by Geraldine O’Connor about attending adult courses in An Grianán, and the promotion of rural electrification by the ICA
Rosemary Connolly interviewed by Geraldine O’Connor about the role of Muintir na Tíre in promoting rural electrification, February 2017
Mary Rose O’Donovan interviewed by Sorcha O’Brien about 1960s Irish cookbooks, December 2017
Margaret O’Reilly interviewed by Eleanor Calnan about electricity encouraging the reading of magazines and newspapers in County Cork, April 2018
Mary Scanlon interviewed by Eleanor Calnan about the magazines and newspapers in County Kerry, April 2018
Bridie McGinty interviewed by Mary O’Reilly about women’s magazines in County Kerry, December 2016

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