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# rural electrification

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ESB map shows when over 1,300 Irish towns, villages and parishes got electricity
Seventy years ago today, the social history of Ireland began changing forever
Sputniks and brown bread: The story of one day during Ireland's rural electrification scheme
Delo Collier