Paper: 322
Lecture: 2017
Author: Laird, Bob
Published in: – Time and Tide 12
Report by: Oona Roycroft
Synopsis : An overview of the development of the telephone system in Ireland followed by an analysis of telephone users in Skerries in 1935 (brief) and 1954 (detailed). The final part of the paper examines the development of the manual phone system to the automated systems of the 1970s and 80s.
Industrial history, social history
16 pages
