How electric-powered kitchen appliances revolutionised life for rural Ireland's women in the 50s

A new exhibition reminds us how electric kitchen appliances revolutionised life for women in rural Ireland in the 1950s and ‘60s, in the wake of the ESB’s massive scheme of rural electrification from 1946 until as late as the 1970s, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Eileen Aylward was 12 years old when she saw the light: the electric light.