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    The Shannon hydroelectric Scheme was a major development by the Irish Free State in the 1920s to harness the power of the River Shannon. Its product,...
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  • Commerce, notably pushing for schemes to increase employment from 1922, which failed, and promoting the Shannon hydroelectric scheme with his minister Patrick...
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  • from Drogheda, County Louth, and one of the key people in the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, an early icon of the Irish Free State. He then helped establish...
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    State in the 1920s was the Shannon hydroelectric scheme which established the Ardnacrusha power station on the lower Shannon above Limerick. The old Killaloe...
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  • electricity grid which was largely built based on design work on the Shannon hydroelectric scheme by Siemens-Schuckert. The British BS1363 (localised as Irish...
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  • engineering projects since the foundation of the state and the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. In the 1970s the need for new energy sources became more urgent...
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    2029. Shannon hydroelectric scheme Creatphlean Comhtháite Straitéiseach d'Inbhear na Sionainne (Strategic Integrated Framework Plan for the Shannon Estuary)...
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    2023 having first invested in the company in 2017. The first Shannon hydroelectric scheme was constructed in 1929 within seven years of independence. Built...
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    constructed on Friar's Island in the River Shannon, to the south of Killaloe town. In 1929–30 the Shannon hydroelectric scheme raised the water level and submerged...
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    224 2002 Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme 1929 52°42′20″N 8°36′46″W / 52.70556°N 8.61278°W / 52.70556; -8.61278 (Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme) Ireland...
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  • 1000 on Friar's Island in the River Shannon, to the south of Killaloe town. In 1929–30 the Shannon hydroelectric scheme raised the water level and submerged...
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    County Clare, Munster, Ireland, located on the northern bank of the River Shannon. By road, it is 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) north of Limerick. The name derives...
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    Lough Allen (category River Shannon)
    later collapsing in the 19th century. On the construction of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme in 1925–9, the lake became a storage reservoir for the power...
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    exception to the generally low level of public spending was the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, which provided Ireland's first autonomous source of electricity...
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    as a means of using the excess electricity generated by the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. A prototype was developed by converting petrol railcar 386 to...
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  • Society and the London Zoological Society, and was involved in the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. He died at "Hoop Hill", his residence in Lurgan, in April 1929...
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    Mangahao Power Station is a hydroelectric power station near the town of Shannon, New Zealand. After being delayed by war, access road construction and...
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  • and Commerce, notably pushing through the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, then the largest hydroelectricity project in the world. In 1927, he set up the...
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    set up to advise on the design of the coins. Blythe funded the Shannon hydroelectric scheme during the late 1920s. Despite his austerity policies in relation...
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    employed by the Siemens company to assist in their work on the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. Gwynn went on to become a chartered civil engineer, a Fellow...
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    McCarthy, senior civil servant Thomas McLaughlin, designer of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme John Moore SMA, Bishop of Bauchi Kevin Murphy, career civil servant...
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    5 MW each. It utilizes the tail water of Shannon Power House of Joginder Nagar project. Larji hydroelectric project is on river Beas in Kullu district...
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    into the Shannon are the falls of Doonass, the largest fall on the otherwise gently sloping river. Nearby is the location of the hydroelectric power plant...
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  • impending flooding of its original location Friars Island due to the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. The second church of the parish is the Church of the Sacred...
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    permanent drainage of the site increased with the development of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. The NPWS conservation objectives for the two types of habitat...
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    Siemens, the government started the Shannon hydroelectric scheme to build a hydroelectric plant on River Shannon. However, unskilled workers were treated...
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  • December 2019. River Shannon Protection Alliance (26 October 2011). "Why we say the Dublin Region Water Supply Project is a bad scheme" (PDF). Archived from...
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    O'Connor, William (2015). "Are Ireland's Large Hydroelectric Schemes Sustainable?". Old River Shannon Trust. Retrieved 8 August 2017. Browne, Bill (2014)...
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    intelligent ex-unionism". In 1925 he was a major opponent of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, describing it as "the poisonous virus of nationalisation". In...
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    for the Ardnacrusha power plant, a major hydroelectric plant. The parish lies on both sides of the River Shannon. As of 1845 the portion of the parish in...
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