ABSTRACT
Ireland’s electrification did not happen with a flick of the switch. Despite being the first country in the world to devise a national electrification scheme, it took decades for the extremities of the newly independent State to be fully connected to the national grid (Figure 2.1). Only in 1956, for instance, did the northernmost Inishowen peninsula officially welcome the Electricity Supply Board (ESB). This area was
by no means the last, with the national Rural Electrification Scheme extending well into the 1960s.
