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Date: 23-January-2007 to 6-February-2007
Time: 180 - 190

Lecture Series: Down Memory Lane

location: Decorative Arts & History -COLLINS BARRACKS

The Museum has organised a lecture series to accompany the temporary exhibition Down Memory Lane: Childhood in the 1950s. This lecture series will look at childhood memories, school life, health and welfare, childhoods as captured on film and children’s literature in the 1950s Ireland.
Talks will take place on Tuesday evenings from the 9th January to 6th February at 6.30pm in the Lecture Theatre. Coffee will be served before the lectures

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 6.30pm (NOTE: CHANGED TOPIC)
Education in the 1950s
Dr John Logan, Department of History, University of Limerick
Join Dr John Logan to explore the school and education system in this period in Ireland’s history.

Tuesday 30 January 2007
Irish Children on Film in the 1950s
Sunniva O’ Flynn, Irish Film Archive
Enjoy a unique opportunity to see rare film capturing Irish children’s lives in the 1950s. Most of the film extracts which you will see have been carefully selected from the non-fiction collections of the Irish Film Archive, and were made by both Irish and foreign film-makers. You might spot yourself or relatives!

Tuesday 6 February 2007
Reading the Stars: Irish Children's Print Media in the 1950s
Dr Mary Shine Thompson, English Department, St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra
Do you remember the touch and smell of newsprint? Did Bunty or Hotspur ever arrive rolled and bound with twine? Did you ever choose Patricia Lynch and Eilís Dillon from the library shelves? Did Enid Blyton, Our Boys and Hans Christian Andersen appeal? Maybe you encountered Rex Readers when you were at school or read about how St Patrick baptized the pagan Celts... This lecture will revisit the children's books and the reading culture – such as it was – of the 1950s.