Tag Archives: 1950s
Alan Kinsella, of Irish Election Literature, tweetz:
From the 1950’s Fine Gael policy on work, workers rights, Unions etc…
Related: Demonising the left is new tribal politics (Justine McCarthy, The Sunday Times)
Tonight.
Fortune’s Wheel.
On RTÉ One at 9.35pm.
Gareth Naughton writes:
Fortune’s Wheel is a documentary feature film about Bill Stephens, an ordinary young man in 1950s Ireland with an extraordinary ambition: to become an international circus star.
It is also a love story about Bill and his young and beautiful wife Mai, from East Wall. Their double act, Jungle Capers, Bill Stephens and Lovely Partner, was a series of death-defying feats with a troupe of lions and dogs designed to thrill audiences in the circus tent and on the stage.
With this act they hoped to break free from the suffocating reality of Irish life, but things went terribly wrong when, in November 1951, one of their animals escaped.
The story gained national and international attention at the time, but it is only now – after 60 years of silence – that two families and a community have come together to tell the story in full.
Two adults and at least five children taking an elephant ride at Dublin Zoo, Phoenix Park, Dublin 1950s.
Bring it back! Bring it Back! Bring it back!
Seriously though, don’t ever bring it back.
Previously: Dublin Zoo, 1963
Via Photos of Dublin
National Library of Ireland tweetz:
A bird’s eye view of Dublin from top of Nelson’s Pillar, circa 1950
Rare auld times is just to the left and out of frame.
