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WHAT with broadband technologies and satellite phones, it is easy to overlook the excitement — and importance — of the first transatlantic cable links.

Ireland's southwest coastline had some of the very first critical communication links, and names like Marconi still ring a bell.

Crookhaven, Waterville, Valentia and their ilk once occupied a strategic place on the chain of telegraph and telephone communications.