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Marconi House

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Marconi House
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Marconi House in County Wexford stands as a memorial to Gugliemo Marconi's 1901 wireless station, linking Poldhu and Clifden across the Irish Sea. The Italian inventor brought Italian fire and Irish blood to the work, his Jameson mother from Enniscorthy and O'Brien wife from Clare weaving local life into global invention. The house still hums with that first transatlantic spark, proving distance dies when human will invents a bridge.
Gugliemo Marconi (1874-1937) established a wireless transmitting station here in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall and Clifden in Co. Galway. An Italian by birth but with a Jameson mother from Enniscorthy and an O'Brien wife from Clare

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