Voices
In the 1970s in Ireland, you could buy a copy of the house design catalogue Bungalow Bliss for 90p, build a house for around £4000, while also getting a £300 government allowance. In a state that had been modernising economically from at least the 1960s – as the economy opened foreign investment flowed inwards and incomes generally increased – many did just this, leaving a permanent mark on the Irish physical landscape. Bungalow Bliss became a “Bungalow Blitz” in the critical late 1980s writings of Frank McDonald and others. Adrian Duncan tells the wider story of the bungalow in his…
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