To listen to RTÉ.ie's radio and podcast services, you will need to disable any ad blocking extensions or whitelist this site.
0
00:00
00:00
Episode Notes
This week, we’re winding the clocks back fifty years to 1967: the year of the Summer of Love, the first colour TV broadcast; anti-Vietnam War protests: Jackie Kennedy's visit to Ireland: the Six Day War in the Middle East; the start of free secondary education in Ireland; homosexuality decriminalised in Britain; and Celtic’s "Lisbon Lions".
We feature archive of, among others, Ian Paisley, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Bobby Kennedy, King Constantine II, in exile from Greece, and our own Finance Minister, Charles Haughey.
There’s music from Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and the Dubliners - as chosen by our three guests who are: historian, Kate O’Malley from the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project; archivist, Catriona Crowe; and UCC Sociologist, Niamh Hourigan.

