A new exhibition "Ireland in Focus: Photographing Ireland in the 1950s" includes images from Dorothea Lange, and anthropologist, Robert Cresswell, as well as the largest exhibition of photographs by ...

In Ireland during the 1950s the censor announced that “Might Mouse”, “Batman” and “Popeye” were “not recommended” while “Bugs Bunny” comic books were “doubtful”. A unique insight into the mind of the ...

The Coronation in 1953 opened our eyes to the power of television. Live pictures of the event were beamed into thousands of households. All at once there was an appetite for what the emerging ...

Analysis: research and oral histories show how cinemas in Co Mayo and elsewhere provided a window onto the wider world in the 1950s Some towns had more than one dedicated cinema with the programme ...

Sitting in a guest house in the heart of the Danube Delta, eating a delicious fish stew made with pike while a group of ethnic Russians performed a folk song-and-dance routine, was a memorable ...

Madam, - As an adult who spent my holidays in Dublin during the years 1955 to 1960, I am wholly in agreement with Father Con … Madam, - As an adult who spent my holidays in Dublin during the years ...

Momentous events include the Great Famine, the Great War, the War of Independence and the declaration of a Republic in 1949. But we have also tracked the everyday concerns of ordinary people, ...