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Notes
Educationalist John Coolahan on the precarious relationship which existed between the Irish state and its libraries for much of the 20th century in his talk 'UnRealised Potential: Ireland's Public Libraries and Our Schools' from the 2002 series marking 100 years of Carnegie Libraries in Ireland.