The IFI are currently doing an Irish Film Archive: On The Road season, visiting various counties with rarely seen, exciting local footage of days gone by. The Dublin branch of the tour, Dublin In The Rare Oul’ Times will feature in a variety of Dublin City’s libraries. Originally supposed to be during Heritage Week, it seems that this has been extended into September and October. They reckon that the archived footage will not only appeal to “nostalgia addicts but also to anyone interested in social, economic and architectural changes in Dublin from the 1930s to the 1970s”. The films to be shown range from a 1932 cinema advertisement for Clery’s department store, a 1949 ‘Safe Cycling’ public information film made for the Department of Local Government to reduce bicycle accidents often caused by bad cycling behaviour (as demonstrated in the film), to the later films of the 60′s and 70′s. … There’s more →