The 1950s and 60s marked the beginning of change as many farmers began to specialize in order to increase efficiency and make maximum use of equipment and facilities. Dairy herds grew to 60 and, in ...
The local debate and consternation takes its toll on this quiet rural Irish village as the ESB arrives to town It was back in the black and white days of the late 1950s when rural life moved at ...
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 a small town in rural Ireland in the 1950s, Fr. Barry (Martin Sheen) visits the sick, reads Latin prayers to them and promotes the installation of electricity in homes and businesses. Fr. Barry ...