Looking Back: Opening of Kilcullen's new Library in 1978

With the County Kildare Library Service celebrating its 100th anniversary tomorrow, Saturday, it is of local interest to see these pictures from the opening of Kilcullen Library, published in the Leinster Leader of 25 November 1978.

Above are J G 'Gerry' Ward, Kildare County Manager; Dick Robinson, Vice Chairman, County Library Committee; Seamus O'Conchubhair, County Librarian, and Very Reverend P Kehoe, Parish Priest of Kilcullen.

On the right is Julie O'Donoghue, then Library Assistant at the Kilcullen branch.

The photos are courtesy of the Local Studies department of the library service via Kilcullen Librarian Ita Casey. Ita will be hosting complimentary refreshments for visitors to Kilcullen Community Library tomorrow morning.

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