By Danielle Ford The above photograph was taken from Ken Russell’s series ‘The Last of the Teddy Girls’, which historians can take as a chronicle of youth subcultures and an insight into the extent to which they were determined by gender. Russell’s collection is one of the first detailed studies of female subcultures in the… Continue reading Teddy Boys and Girls
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Brenda Carey’s Clackers
Photo credit: Clackers: Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann Brenda Carey’s story, Dublin 1970s “I was out working by the age of fourteen, but I was still a child. Clackers came in in the 1970s. I spotted them in a shop on Aungier St, just past Whitefriers St Church, on the opposite side… Continue reading Brenda Carey’s Clackers
Beatlemania, Mods and Hysterical Teenagers – Irish Style
By Ciara Molloy On 7 November 1963, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr performed two shows in the Adelphi Cinema on Middle Abbey Street to more than 5,000 Irish fans.[i] Mobs of ‘screaming teenage girls’ had greeted previous Beatles’ appearances in Leicester,[ii] and in anticipation of similar incidents in Dublin, Operation Beatles was… Continue reading Beatlemania, Mods and Hysterical Teenagers – Irish Style