School: An Clochar, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí

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1. The First Bicycle (continued)

   

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   One day she followed children into a house. She asked them to come out and that she would give them a drive. She explained that the bicycle would do no harm. Nothing would induce the children to go out. In the upper part of the parish James O Cown (65 yrs) of Brennan Tralee, states that the first tricycle (3 wheels) was used by Michael Reidy of the same address who is now a priest in Australia.

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2. The First Train

   

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   The first train to Tralee caused a great sensation and for a long time the ordinary people of the place would not travel on it. All round the place people ran out of their homes to see the quick movement of the train passing and people came from

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