
Livelihood and Housekeeping: seaweed gathering
Co. Galway
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26,052 items from the Main Manuscript Collection, 252,771 stories from the Schools’ Collection (1937–38) and 12,393 images from the Photographic Collection are available here
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Derrybeg, Co. Donegal
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