Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
Author:   Eleanor O’Leary (Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350136076


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Eleanor O’Leary (Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9781350136076


ISBN 10:   1350136077
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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 *


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Eleanor O’Leary is Assistant Lecturer in Media and Communications at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland.

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