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PROGRAMME ONE

DUBLIN OF THE WELCOMES

This thinly veiled advertisement for Irish Sweepstake tickets was made for the US and UK market at a time when gambling was illegal in those territories. It opens with a whistle-stop tour of Dublin locations before showing massive Sweepstake operations – which employed thousands of female clerical workers in Ireland in the 1930s.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.