The 1960s was a decade of rapid change for Ireland, which had previously prized economic isolation and cultural preservation but in this period was increasingly aligning with modern industrialized societies. Economic growth, social development and planning became the center focus of Irish government. This society entered into a period of accelerated modernization, and economic, social and cultural changes were increasingly internationalist in orientation.
Here below is a collection of fascinating photographs that capture cities, towns, buildings, streets, markets, and everyday life of people.
Where is the last photograph taken? the army out riders.
pic 20 is salthill
66 is Bray Head cable cars
When men were men and women were women, simpler times 😔
Some of those captions are very questionable, what makes that woman’s shawl Spanish? It looks like every Irish woman’s shawl I ever grew up with. There are also multiple labelled as cafes etc that are clearly the beer garden of a pub, the many of these are colourised black and white images