THE WAY WE WERE

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Broadcast Details: Monday 21st March, 9.35pm

Episode 3 takes a look at The Way We Played

Episode 4: The Way We Played

Until the 1960s most Irish workers toiled a 6 day week and leisure time was a precious and rare commodity.

But yet we managed to enjoy ourselves in ways that seem enviably colourful to the modern screen-addicted eye!

From our passion for ‘Going To The Pictures’ when almost every Irish Town and Suburb had its’ own Cinema, to the scores of Variety Shows, Speciality Acts and Circuses that toured our parish halls and fairgrounds.

From the heyday of quirky Spectator Sports events and eccentric local festivals, our love affair with Wrestling and Daredevil Stunt Shows to the rise of Cabaret Culture and our slow acceptance of eating-out as a leisure activity.

Revisiting the misogyny of our 20th Century Pub Culture and the illicit thrill of our first video clubs when the 1980s brought us VHS and a new trend for staying in as the new going out!

Series Overview:

RTÉ One’s hit social history documentary Series THE WAY WE WERE returns for a new 4 Part Season on Monday nights 9.35pm from Monday 7 March.

Full of insights into 20th Century life in Ireland as viewed through 100 years of film archive plus the recollections & observations of well-known Irish Personalities, pundits & historians THE WAY WE WERE roams widely over Ireland’s social and cultural history offering a fascinating window into our recent past.

Each Episode focuses on one vital aspect of our lives that has changed radically over the past 10 decades.

This new series examines our attitudes towards love, sex and marriage in THE WAY WE LOVED, our relationship with our homes and houses in THE WAY WE WERE; AT HOME, the changes in the way we dressed in THE WAY WE WORE and how we spent our leisure time in THE WAY WE PLAYED

Contributors include well known Irish names who all came of age during the 20th Century.  Some born as far back as the 1930’s.  Including:

Broadcasters Mike Murphy, Joe Duffy, John Creedon, Barbara Mc Mahon (ex Fashion Presenter ‘Head To Toe’) Hugh Wallace, Ciara Kelly and Brendan Courtney.

Comedians Sil Fox, Ardal O’Hanlon, Colm O’Regan and Katherine Lynch.

Musicians Mary Coughlan, Philomena Begley and Jerry Fish

Entertainers Alan Amsby (Mr Pussy) and Eileen Reid

Journalists and Authors Michael Harding and Damian Corless

Politician Mary O’Rourke

Veteran GAA Star and Pundit Pat Spillane

Joining them are experts ranging from business luminaries to Social Historians including:

Penneys/Primark Director Breege O’Donoghue

Fashion Consultant and Chairperson of The Council of Irish Fashion Designers Eddie Shanahan

Former Xtravision Director Gerry Butler

Historians Donal Fallon (Three Castles Burning Blog), Sarah Anne Buckley (Old Ireland In Colour Book Series), Ruth Griffin (Fashion Historian)  Emily Power Smith (Sexologist), Eleanor O’Leary (Pop Culture Historian) and Turtle Bunberry (Vanishing Ireland Book Series)