After a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Ulster Farmers’ Union, which was held in Belfast during this week in 1950, a stark warning was issued about the plight facing farmers in Northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

A natural part of life, a look at a deceased's journey from death bed to sainthood in a small country village in Ireland. Life was harsh in the rural village of my childhood. Many people did not make ...

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 ...