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Countryside and Infrastructure developmental activities in Ireland.
Exterior of an Irish Government Building in Dublin. Prime MInister Eamon de Valera addresses officials. Views of country side in Ireland. Irish ham and bacon and care and raising of pigs and cows on farms. Farmers plowing in fields, and peat is mined with large harvesting machines and cut into briquettes. Activities in beer brewing (Guiness wooden barrels seen lined up at a brewery) and auto industry with a Ford assembly line in Cork Ireland. New cars on the assembly line being assembled by Irish workers. A Dunlop rubber processing plant in Cork Ireland. Rubber boots being manufactured at the Dunlop plant. The Shannon hydroelectic scheme power project in Limerick region of Ireland; views of the power plant and the river Shannon from which it draws power. View of the hydroelectric dam. Men working atop a large electric transmission tower. Women examine an electric table top mixer for the kitchen. A woman using an electric iron on clothes, and a view of an electric waffle maker and toaster. Streets of Dublin busy with activity. Clocks, shirts, ties, and cutlery in shop windows of Dublin, along with blankets and other goods all made in Ireland. Physicians and nurses gather in a surgical theater of a hospital. Newborn baby being washed in a maternity ward. Public housing construction efforts shown transforming older thatched cottages into modern homes. Signs in ancient Gaelic are shown, recently restored as the national language of the independent Eire. Irish schoolboys enter a school building. Many have no shoes and enter the school house barefoot. A teacher instructs the school boys in the classroom.
A panorama showing Irish countryside and various cities and people of Ireland in the mid 1940's.
A panorama of the Irish countryside, sheep grazing. A map of Ireland is seen. Crowds, double decker buses, and vehicles on city streets of Belfast Northern Ireland. Statue of Lord Carson at Parliament. Activities in linen industry. Riveters and welders at work in a shipyard. Protestant Orangemen seen. A painting revering the King and Queen of England. Orangemen in dress costume in a July 12 annual parade celebrating victory at Battle of the Boyne. Custom officials on the Eire Northern Ireland border. Narrator talks about the recently independent Eireann and its people who are independent in thought and speech. Irish farmers with horse carts loaded head down a road. Farmers and business men talk in streets of Ireland and strike deals. Horses and carts among the men. An Irish boy standing with a group of sheep. Pastures and bucolic and scenic views of farms and villages in rural Ireland. Men and women spinning wool and weaving using traditional hand spinning wheels and traditional old loom methods.
Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera in an official meeting in Ireland.
Irish flag on an official Irish Government building. Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera working in office. Exterior of Fianna Fail-The Republican Party building in Ireland. Officials in a meeting, de Valera addressing. Pictures of important historic political leaders who struggled for independence of Ireland can be seen. Narrator discussing Ireland's decision to remain neutral in World War 2. A statue on the top of a building. Children filling water from a communal hand pump for a town. Views of country side, sheep grazing in Ireland
A dramatized documentary film about the Marshall Plan titled ' The Promise of Barty O'Brien'
A dramatized documentary film on how Marshall plan helped Barty O'Brien become an electrical engineer. Barty (protagonist) arrives at Shannon airport, Ireland with an American friend and tell him the story. Scenes of Irish bogs and construction of a new electric power plant near O'Brien's farm. Barty's family is introduced. A conflict between modern ideas of Barty and his old fashioned father is shown. Barty can be seen working.
Renewed tourism in Western Europe five years after World War II
Transworld Airways Lockheed Constellation passenger airplane arriving from New York City and Shannon,Ireland. It taxis to parking ramp at Orly Airport, Paris, France. Closeup of another airliner shutting down on the ramp. Passengers walk across the ramp and under the tail of an Air France plane, on their way to the terminal building. They are greeted by a band of men in red huntsmen uniforms playing hunting horns. A railroad train in a picturesque setting. Patrons relaxing on a cafe terrace, at an Italian train station, as an electrified train pulls in. An excursion boat draws near to Chillon Castle On Lake Geneva Switzerland. More views of the castle, from its footpath. Ancient Greek ruins near the Mediterranean Sea. Saint Mark’s Basilica on St. Mark’s Square in the city of Venice, Italy. Many visitors walking in the square, and a flock of pigeons taking flight. The Palace of Versailles, viewed from behind statues in the garden. Chartes Cathedral, Chartres, France. St Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy. Views of Copenhagen, Denmark, including the Little Mermaid statue. A man rowing a boat on a lake in the Alps Mountains. Snow-covered mountains. Trains running in the mountains. Border guards of Italy and Switzerland on their respective sides of their mutual border at a train station. A train transiting the border. A Volkswagen Type 1 (Beetle) car and other vehicles being processed at a German border crossing.
Sign boards at various store fronts in Yorkville, New York (WW2)
View of various Irish store fronts and sign boards in Yorkville, New York (upper east side of Manhattan). The sign boards read: 'New Dublin Siopa', 'New Dublin Ladies Wear', 'Rohan's Dairy', 'Sullivan's Cafe', 'Irish Meat Market', 'Irish Soda Bread'. A man walks. Irish girl places a newspaper 'Irish Echo' in the paper rack on which is written 'Irish Digest'. Headline of a newspaper reads: 'Ireland wants no war' in World War II. Store fronts and signs 'Shamrock Bar', 'Shannon's Cafe' and 'Irish American Cafe'.
