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THE first photograph in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane shows how milk was delivered to people's doorsteps before the days of supermarkets. Gordon Fraser recalls some of the pitfalls of this type of delivery: “My brother was a milkman with the Co-op and as a teenager, I used to help him deliver the milk at weekends and school holidays by means of horse and cart. It was an early-morning start and we delivered around Izatt Avenue and Nethertown. One of my fond memories is of us going down the New Row, a steep hill which needed you to keep the brake on the cart to stop it...

RTÉ History in the Junior and Senior Cycle history classroom Updated / Wednesday, 27 Jan 2021 16:53 From the Great Irish Famine to the revolutionary period of the early 20th century, RTÉ History provides a wealth of accessible material by noted historians, along with a huge range of maps archival images and more, to support secondary school history students The three-part documentary The Irish Revolution premiered on RTE television in February 2019. Narrated by Cillian Murphy and based on the award-winning Atlas of the Irish Revolution, the success of documentary led to the development ...

By Deborah Price Local Democracy Reporter - Hertfordshire Image: Pixabay The Hertfordshire Music Service – currently run by the county council – could become a charity, according to budget proposals. The service currently provides weekly music lessons for around 26,000 children and young people from across the county. And it is said, by the county council, to be “centrally important” to the quality of life and the musical experiences of young people. Nevertheless over the past five years, the coun...

Ambushes and attacks marked War of Independence in Kildare The 2021 prorgramme of talks and seminars to mark the centenary of 1921 events is likely to move online due to Covid-19 restrictions 24 Jan 2021 Men from the North Kildare (1st) Battalion at Rath Internment Camp 1921. Pic: Kildare Local Studies, Newbridge Library ');  '); Since 2012 the Local Studies Department, Kildare County Library Service, and the County Kildare Decade of Commemorations Committee have been commemorating local people and events of the 1912-1923 period, as well as Kildare’s connections to national and internation...

HERE is a trip back to the 1950s at a Rose Queen crowning ceremony.