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Other books of interest

The Mammy by Brendan Ocarroll and distributed by Penguin. This is the hilarious, laugh out aloud, do not read this in public, story of growing up in Dublin in the 1960's. Agnes Brown's husband has recently died and her best friend is terminally ill, but this stops neither her devotion to her numerous children, nor ther zest for life

Dublin Street Life and Lore: an oral history by Kevin Kearns

Dublin tenement life: an oral history by Kevin Kearns

Dublin Voices An Oral Folk History by Kevin Kearns

If ever you go to Dublin Town was published by the National Library of Ireland and the Women's History Project in 1999, ISBN 0 907 32818 0. It is a selection of photographs from the Elinor Wiltshire collection, with text by Orla Fitzpatrick. The series of 81 photographs present a unique portrait of Dublin as a town, spanning over two decades from 1951.

Other Print resources

Irish Times newspaper published since  1874 --  obtain on interlibrary loan and read headlines
Time or Life or Look  --  use an index like  Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature   or International Index to Periodicals
Countries and their Cultures      (RefGN307.c882001)
Encyclopedia of World Cultures      (RefGN550.e531991)
 

A couple of films from Ireland

The Butcher Boy (1998)
  Set in Ireland in the early 1960s, this moody, darkly humorous autobiographical story from Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game")   focuses on Francie, a 12-year-old bully who remains a terror to those who surround him. Francie's behavior, however, can
  be tra ced to his dysfunctional family, including his troubled mother and alcoholic father. With Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea   and Fiona Shaw. 110 min.
  Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Ian Hart, Gerard McSorley, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw
  Rated: R        Color    Was $14.99       $13.49    VHS     #19275

A Man of No Importance

Alfie, a Dublin bus conductor in 1962, lives with his sister Lily and feels a close affinity with Oscar Wilde. He works the bus route with his young friend Robbie and enchants his passengers by reciting poetry to them. He is inspired to stage Wilde's
Salome when a young country girl steps aboard his bus one day.

The cast, consisting of his bus passengers, may lack finesse, or even talent, but Alfie is an indulgent, big-hearted director and slowly the players begin to enter into the spirit of the drama.

A very interesting television series -- may be difficult to get!

RTE television ran a series of programs about their  40 Years of Irish Television
 

A few sites about the 1960's on the web

Gregg Knights Patio Culture

Teachernet
 

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