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Fadó Fadó - Sparking Memories - Kilkenny Young Researchers Primary School Competition

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The competition offered primary school pupils (3rd-6th class) an opportunity to work as historians and personally engage with the local studies…

Contributors: Local Studies Staff

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Irish National League Minute Book 1883-1887
Ballyragget
County Kilkenny

Irish National League Book Ballyragget 1883

Minute book of Ballyragget Branch of Irish National League 1883-1887 detailing lists of members and issues arising at local meetings.

Contributors: Local Studies Staff

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Ballyragget
County Kilkenny

Kilkenny from old postcards

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Kilkenny City and County shown in old postcards from photographic images, engravings, hand-tinted images and graphics.

Contributors: Kilkenny County Library

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Kilkenny Shopfronts through the Ages

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Kilkenny Shopfronts is a collection of photographs of the shopfronts in each Street in central Kilkenny City covering the period between the late 20th…

Contributors: Kilkenny County Council Planning Department

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McCalmont Family Archives – the family albums, sketchbooks and scrapbooks of Lady Rose McCalmont of Mount Juliet, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny

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Kilkenny’s social and cultural history from the 18th to the mid-20th centuries was dominated both politically, visually, socially and cultural by…

Contributors: Kilkenny County Council Library Service
Local Studies Department Staff
Lady Rose McCalmont
Harry McCalmont

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Memoir of an Irish Pauper who became an American humanitarian by John Logan Power

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This is the extraordinary memoir of 20 years old John Logan Power who spent 8 years as a pauper in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Workhouse 1842-1850. It was…

Contributors: Josephy Kennedy - Callan Heritage Society

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St Kieran's College and Kilkenny City Scenes

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Images of these old postcards donated to the Library by Mick Kenny, the cards were collected by Mick Kenny and his father the late Teddy Kenny,…

Contributors: Declan Macauley

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Streetscapes of Kilkenny City

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A collection of black and white photographs taken around Kilkenny City circa 1969/1970

Contributors: Kilkenny County Library

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The 1831 Census and the Woodstock Estate, County Kilkenny

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The 1831 Census and the Woodstock Estate, County Kilkenny

Contributors: The Local Studies Department at Kilkenny County Library Services

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