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Watch as school boys visits the Dublin Zoo in the 1930s with this historic clip now available from the Irish Film Institute.

With boat rides, dancing, and singalongs, this short film of a visit to West Cork in the 1940s, now available from the Irish Film Institute, looks simply idyllic.

"Killiney Hill" from the Irish Film Institute gives you a taste of an idyllic summer afternoon in Dublin in the 1930s. "Killiney Hill" is now available to stream for free via the Irish FIlm Institute's IFI Archive Player.

In the only known footage to have been filmed from within a Magdalene Laundry, Fr. Jack Delaney removed part of the mystery about the residents of the Catholic-run institutions in Ireland and the nuns who oversaw them.

Take a look at what First Holy Communion ceremonies looked like in 1930s north inner-city Dublin.

In the only known footage to have been filmed from within a Magdalene Laundry, Fr. Jack Delaney removed part of the mystery about the residents of the Catholic-run institutions in Ireland and the nuns who oversaw them.