Ireland in the 1950s

It is hard to imagine what it was like to live in 1950s Ireland from the perspectives our of speedy, technologically mediated lives in Ireland today.

This section provides some background information on the 1950s including statistics on population changes, labour force participation and migration patterns, themes taken up in the academic literature, miscellaneous book reviews and a selected bibliography. It also hosts the texts, images and music contributed to the archive.

Academics on the 1950s