Slideshows are par for the course with lectures in the 2020s but the concept was pioneered almost a hundred years by Helen Roe, the first County Librarian of County Laoise. Born in Mountrath in 1895, Helen Maybury Roe was the only child of a mill owner from Mountrath. From the national school in Mountrath, […]
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