{"id":68134,"date":"2025-02-04T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/accounting\/rural-electrification-in-ireland-new-book\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:45:40","slug":"rural-electrification-in-ireland-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=68134","title":{"rendered":"Rural electrification in Ireland \u2013 new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-3546\">\n<p>\t<!-- \/.meta --><\/p>\n<div class=\"middle col-left clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3545\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/2022\/12\/24\/rural-electrification-in-ireland-new-book\/img_2323\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"828,1035\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_2323\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg?w=240\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg?w=479\" width=\"819\" height=\"1023\" src=\"https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg?w=819\" class=\"wp-image-3545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg?w=819 819w, https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg?w=120 120w, https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg?w=240 240w, https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2323.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>A slightly personal post.<\/p>\n<p>I am from a small village in Dublin, whose claim to fame is that it was the first rural area to receive electricity back in 1947. It may be hard for us to imagine the effect this had on rural life, but it was a life changing event, a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>That was 75 years ago. As part of Oldtown\u2019s marking of this anniversary I had the honour of writing a short book about events around the arrival of power to my village. A key reason for writing the book was to ensure that knowledge is not lost, and to put some focus on Oldtown as the first step in this revolution which changed rural Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The book can be purchased in Kindle version here \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B0BQSTC9PM?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_9Z5QZG8MCEGGQ2ZQH1PQ\">Power to Rural No.1: The story of Oldtown, the first Irish village to be electrified under the Rural Electrification Scheme<\/a> . A paperback copy is also available, you can complete this <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=6ner6qW040mh6NbdI6Hyhi5G9aqoM8JMi6RDkUts1OpUMktKVTIxMzg5NDQ5UUIwQkczTlo4RjhCQS4u\">form<\/a>. All proceeds\/royalties from the book are donated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-evelyns-battle-with-batten-disease-cln3?utm_source=facebook\">this<\/a> charitable cause.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry --><\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/martinjquinn.com\/tag\/rural-electrification\/\" rel=\"tag\">rural electrification<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div id=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5b56a77bbd0ed227f1208e19fee5b77fb31cb4521499516707c9ddb1fbba7d?s=65&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5b56a77bbd0ed227f1208e19fee5b77fb31cb4521499516707c9ddb1fbba7d?s=65&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 1x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5b56a77bbd0ed227f1208e19fee5b77fb31cb4521499516707c9ddb1fbba7d?s=98&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 1.5x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5b56a77bbd0ed227f1208e19fee5b77fb31cb4521499516707c9ddb1fbba7d?s=130&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 2x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5b56a77bbd0ed227f1208e19fee5b77fb31cb4521499516707c9ddb1fbba7d?s=195&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 3x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5b56a77bbd0ed227f1208e19fee5b77fb31cb4521499516707c9ddb1fbba7d?s=260&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 4x\" class=\"avatar avatar-65\" height=\"65\" width=\"65\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- #author-avatar --><\/p>\n<div id=\"author-description\">\n<h4>About martinjquinn<\/h4>\n<p>\t\t\tI am an accounting academic, accountant and author based near Dublin, Ireland.\t\t\t<!-- #author-link\t-->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- #author-description --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- #entry-author-info -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.middle --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly personal post. 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That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11759],"tags":[2268,36248,5924,4243],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-68134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accounting","tag-book","tag-electrification","tag-ireland","tag-rural"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rural electrification in Ireland \u2013 new book - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=68134\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rural electrification in Ireland \u2013 new book - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A slightly personal post. 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