We present an extract from A Year of Glory and Gold: 1932, Ireland's Jazz Age, the new book from bestselling social historian Kevin C. Kearns. The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak ...

In the first place, wow, an exclamation mark in a headline. Advertising copy did a fair bit of shrieking and banging in 1916, but the old Gazette didn't make a habit of gasping headlines. In the ...

The 1920s were a period of significant social transformation. After WWI, society was ready for something new, and young women began pushing back against the strict expectations that had long defined ...

After World War I, America found its happy place again and cooked up the nearly decade-long party known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Key ingredients were Prohibition booze, jazz, speakeasies, and ...

Gatsby was Gilded Age goals, flapper style is sexy as hell, and a 1920s orchestra can only be improved when a little Latin flavor gets thrown into the musical mix. So it’s great to hear news of the ...

They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t just following a fashion trend — they were the OG rule-breakers. With ...

The ‘Great Gatsby’ is everywhere. In publicity shots the actress Carey Mulligan looks very fetching in her headband - but is she wild, bold, cool and zany enough to fit the bill as a real flapper? Not ...

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