List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Education and Opportunity
3. Employment and Emigration
4. Bringing it Back Home: The Adoption of International Youth Style
and Music
5. The Pictures
6. Closer to Home
7. Comic, Politics and Reading Materials
8. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Examines, through the lens of popular culture, how young people contributed to the cultural transformation of Irish society during the 1950s.
Eleanor O’Leary is Assistant Lecturer in Media and Communications at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland.
Relying primarily on press accounts and institutional records of
the time, supported by the judicious application of sociological
theory, O’Leary contradicts the notion of the postwar generation as
static and quiescent … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division
undergraduates through faculty.
*CHOICE*
O’Leary’s factory workers, secretaries, shop assistants, messenger
boys, young farmers (male and female) and students give us a new
insight into Ireland in the 1950s.
*Caitriona Clear, Senior Lecturer in History National University of
Ireland Galway, Ireland*
An important marker in the re-writing of Irish social history in
the late twentieth century.
*Cultural and Social History*
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