Mansion House Home Exhibition – Amharc Éireann: Eagrán 171

Step into The Ideal Homes Exhibition in Dublin’s Mansion House and discover the most desirable homewares for 1962.

The latest inventions and design innovations are on show including a host of time-saving gadgets which make life easier for the busy home-maker. Enjoy a wide range of products such as the washer/dryer combo that works at the touch of a button allowing you to relax ‘while you have a cigarette’, tasty new foods from Knorr, and shiny bikes from Raleigh. The Ideal Homes Exhibition was held in the elegant surroundings of Dublin’s Mansion House from the mid-‘50s until it relocated to the RDS in 1994.

Produced by Gael Linn, Amharc Éireann (A View of Ireland) is Ireland’s longest-running indigenous newsreel series. It was distributed to cinemas throughout the country to  promote the Irish language. The first 36 issues were produced as single-topic films which were released monthly, followed in 1959 by weekly, multi-story newsreels featuring a broad range of topics, from hard news stories to lighter magazine-style items. Between 1956 and 1964, 267 editions of the newsreel were produced for cinema exhibition.

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With kind permission of Gael Linn.