This episode revisits the rise & fall of the Irish Holiday Resort. From a few days in Bray to a Dream Vacation on ‘The Continent’ how we holidayed changed a lot through the 20th Century. The advent of UK Style Holiday ‘Camps’ & the rise of ‘Praycations’ as the Pilgrimage to Lourdes became our number1 dream holiday choice in the 50’s & 60’s.
This episode takes a look back at The Way We Shopped from the era of the small local shop to the dawn of the mammoth Irish Supermarket chains and the spectacular rise of a small Dublin Clothing Store called Penneys.
The Way We Worked: A look at the way Ireland was charts the nation's change from single earner male-provider households via the flood of women into the workplace in the 70s and 80s.
The programmes casts a warm nostalgic eye over the themes of an Irish Christmas, asking how much has changed and how much has soothingly stayed the same
Return of the documentary about Ireland's social and cultural history, looking at the issue of love, including courtship and dating rituals, habits and taboos
A look at the recent history of Irish housing, from the idealistic Garden City movement of the 1930s and '40s to the socially destructive high-rise projects of the 1960s and '70s.
How Irish people used to enjoy themselves, including trips to the cinema, variety shows, speciality acts and circuses, plus the country's love affair with wrestling and stunt shows
Each decade of the 20th Century saw its own Holy Communion Fashions, Bridal and Wedding Fashions, Work Wear Fashions, Partywear Fashions, Weird Underwear Trends, Teen and Youth Fashions and Outlandish Fads. THE WAY WE WORE takes a trawl through the archives to reveal how we Irish styled ourselves as the 20th Century progressed into the 21st.
From the evolution of our healthcare to the eradication of many diseases of childhood and poverty. This is an episode that cuts to the quick of who we were and who we are today.
The 20th century changed the shape of our eating habits – from a full cooked dinner in the middle of the day to the birth of all new meals like supper, elevenses and Brunch!
From the chequered History of our Garda force to the shockingly late abolition of the Death Penalty, and how the 20th Century brought us ‘crime as entertainment’
