Immediately after the Second World War, Bord na Móna recruited some foreign peat experts to help with the development of the industry.
Dr. John Hennig,…
Believe it or not but at one time, Bord na Móna, in common with most other employers, paid female employees less than their male colleagues…
In 1970, Tom Barry of Bord na Móna recognised and advocated the need to conserve and protect the best remaining examples of bogs for future…
In 1938 a decision was taken to build a turf-fired electricity station at Portarlington which would be operational by 1941. However the war delayed this…
In 1979 then Bord na Móna Managing Director, Lewis Rhatigan, commissioned Louis le Brocquy to produce a tapestry to celebrate what was then felt to…
When O. Bulleid joined CIE from British Railways in 1949 he decided to build a turf-burning locomotive.
Trials were made with a stationary engine using…
When Todd Andrews took charge of the Turf Development Board in 1934, Eamon de Valera made sure to inform Andrews of the importance which he…
Bord na Móna has always sought to use the latest accounting technology.
In 1949 it installed its first Hollerith punched card equipment, in 1959 it…
On and around St Patrick’s Day was traditionally the time that Bord na Móna would start production of sod turf by rolling out the baggers…
There were a number of miscellaneous uses of peat in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which are of some historical interest.
In 1849 the…
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