Dec 29 2009
The rosy glow of the 60s — or not
I am listening to Brendan Balfe’s radio retrospective on the 60s on RTE Radio 1 (his Five Decades historical series) and parts make me blink back tears, pulling up my own young child’s memories of those years. Somehow that decade has assumed a funky and fun, happy-go-lucky-but-with-cool-student-protests kind of aura. But this is just not [...]