1.4K Finally, and crucially, a librarian had been appointed: Miss Ellen Kirby was at this time about thirty-five years old. Born in Waterford, she was living in Greystones with her widowed mother and her unmarried sister. She may have had literary ambitions of her own: her partially illegible census entry seems to describe her as ‘author’. Certainly, she is described as ‘taking up the duty as a labour of love.’ Within a year, fortunately for her, her salary had been raised to 7s 6d per week, and she seems to have continued to serve as librarian until her untimely death in 1922.
Greystones’ Own Carnegie Hall
We chart Greystones library's difficult birth
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Andrew Carnegie was Scottish by birth, from Dunfermline in Fife, also my home county. His family moved to the US when he was 12. Dunfermline town has several buildings and a park gifted to them by Carnegie – including the other, some say original, Carnegie Hall.
It’s like you’ve been reading our mind. And our archives. https://www.greystonesguide.ie/carnegie-library-gets-stamp-of-approval/