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Your Stories - Our Histories

Summer Fair days, old style sheep dipping, happy days on the bog and rural life in the foothills of the Dublin mountains. In this section, you can read these stories and more....
Visitors to the National Museum of Ireland-Country Life have recorded their memories of days gone by for The Memory Book Project.
Add your own memory of Irish Country Life to this collection by downloading a memory sheet here, and returning it by post to Joanne Hamilton, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park, Co. Mayo, or e-mailing it to jhamilton@museum.ie

  • Remembering the hardship of everyday life

    Remembering the hardship of everyday life

  • Rural life at the foot of the Dublin Mountains

    Rural life at the foot of the Dublin Mountains

  • Saturday night bath time

    Saturday night bath time

  • Shoe mending still being done the traditional way

    Shoe mending still being done the traditional way

  • Stories of fairies and bogs that move in the night

    Stories of fairies and bogs that move in the night

  • Strawboys, bonfires, station masses and waking the dead.

    Strawboys, bonfires, station masses and waking the dead.

  • Summer holiday spent in Mohill, Co. Leitrim

    Summer holiday spent in Mohill, Co. Leitrim

  • The Drag Home

    The Drag Home

  • The pink sheep dip

    The pink sheep dip

  • Traditional dress worn by my grandmother

    Traditional dress worn by my grandmother

  • Working on the bog

    Working on the bog

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