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# social history

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# Interview
How the First World War changed soccer in Ireland
The sport was not always wholly embraced by the masses.
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Aug 29th 2015, 10:00 AM
# Reeling In The Years
18 must-see gems from RTÉ's huge archives... in Vine form
Honestly, these are wonderful.
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Apr 26th 2014, 6:00 PM
# social history
Ye Olde Irish Pantomime Posters of the Day
Snowhite and the Seven Corkmen, anyone?
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Dec 21st 2013, 10:15 AM
# working lives
Pictorial record shows the Irish hard at work 100 years ago
Working Lives exhibition at the NLI exposes the conditions in which men, women and children toiled to survive.
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Oct 26th 2013, 8:45 AM
# Cork
The changing face of Cork's Patrick Street
This Cork city’s main street has undergone many changes throughout the years. Here are some of them in photos.
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Aug 25th 2013, 9:15 AM
# social history
In pics: Ellis Island and its 'huddled masses'
Archive photographs show “the tired, the poor” – and the occasional imposter Russian prince – who made up the millions passing through US immigration terminal from 1892.
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Jan 1st 2013, 11:00 AM
# bye bye now
Vanishing phoneboxes doc represents Ireland in China fest
Bye Bye Now, which shows how phoneboxes acted as a hub for love and life, picked to represent the nation in EU Film Festival across four Chinese cities.
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Oct 5th 2012, 9:40 AM