The camera celebrated its 170th birthday in 2009. In the archives of the Irish Examiner are many thousands of photographic images that form an extensive pictorial record and provide a unique glimpse of the recent past. This book is a collection of some of the best of those pictures from the mid-to-late twentieth century. It contains an engaging range of subjects: people going about work and play; dignitaries visiting; sportsmen and women in action; children at school; and historic events and personalities from the worlds of politics, music, and many more. Complemented with concise captions, this never-before-published collection of photographs provides a glance back to an era when times were so different from today.