And all that jazz: The Irish Free State and 'the devil's music'

Despite it being remembered as a bleak and dismal time for the country, the Jazz Age reached even rural Ireland, writes Noel Baker

Flappers in about 1925, © Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo) 

The uniquely Irish concept of “notions”– we scorn them, but sometimes we need them.

When it came to an overlooked cultural era in Ireland, notions were essential.