Putting his best foot forward

Nic Gareiss will dance in a house in Cork at a Quarter Block Party event to mark the infamous Dance Halls Act, which brought state interference into people’s leisure pursuits, writes Marjorie Brennan

Putting his        best foot forward

Nic Gareiss will dance in a house in Cork at a Quarter Block Party event to mark the infamous Dance Halls Act, which brought state interference into people’s leisure pursuits, writes Marjorie Brennan

THE 1930s were a heady time in Ireland politically and culturally, with the nascent Free State struggling to assert itself. It was also a time when morality was strictly policed and monitored by both Church and State.

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