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Ireland

Reel Number: 221293-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Ireland

Location:

TC Begins: 07:00:59

TC Ends: 07:15:45

Duration: 00:14:46

Ireland March of Time Forum Edition 07:01:27 Farm fields, sheep grazing. Coastline w/ ruins. City street w/ castle at end. 07:01:54 Map showing Eire & Northern Ireland. 07:02:00 Belfast streets w/ trams & government building. Statues. Traffic police; linen shops; workers leaving shipyards. Large cranes move steel, welding. Street scenes. Protestant murals on builings. 07:02:55 Orangemen parade, 12th July, celebrating victory over Catholics. 07:03:19 Border crossing, signs: Customs Boundary Post. Bus & papers checked. Carts on road, one w/ peat. People in square & men laughing & talking at cattle market. Man unloading peat from cart into bag at house. Landscapes of rural; couple driving cattle; men scything grain; riding carts to village past rock walls. 07:05:19 Woman spinning wool in house w/ baby in crib. Man weaving w/ loom in home. Village & priest walking thru visiting houses for tea w/ older women. Church entrance, interior w/ priests; crowds leave large church. ?? College w/ priests being educated. Interiors of classes; library & monks. 07:07:22 Dublin w/ street scene, Leopardstown race track & crowd w/ betting touts. Horse racing on grass track. Crowd studying program. Football stadium & rugby game; soccer game. Score board & people cheering. 07:08:32 Capitol building ext & int meeting w/ Eamon De Valera speaking (SOF) at table w/ others. Rural scenes. Harvesting w/ tractor, by hand, pig raising & butchering. Men & women in white coats studying at Limmerick condensed milk plant, cattle & butter manufacturing. Irish women turning churns. 07:09:57 Large mechanical peat bog harvester & trucks hauling turf. Compressing peat into briquettes for marking. Dock & brewing barrels. 07:10:37 Ford assembly line in Cork. Dunlop rubber plant in Cork producing boots & tires. Shannon River hydroelectric in Limmerick w/ enormous penstocks. Men working on power lines & women w/ electric mixer, iron, waffle maker & toaster. 07:12:06 Street scene in Dublin w/ pedestrians. Signs in window: Assembled in Ireland. Clothes, silverware, blankets & people shopping. New hospitals w/ doctors & nurses. Large operating room & students watching. Patients in ward. 07:13:01 Older housing & new construction. Men working. Street scenes w/ Gallic & English. Barefoot boys into school class. Government building, De Valera at work at desk. Fine Gael opposition party, voting. Picture of various important poltcians. Street scenes, girls at well. Priest, peasants. Coast line. The End. History; Geography; Politics; Nation; Pride;

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