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 ...

People can be slow to keep a record of pleasure. We remember the serious stuff first: the battles and wars, important dates and deaths, tragedies and dramas. But happiness, even broadly shared, is too ...