Showband exhibition recalls glory of the swinging sixties

GOLDEN folk memories came flooding back yesterday as the National Museum of Ireland Country Life began to celebrate a generation that danced its way into history.

Hucklebuck Time, an exhibition which opened in Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo, and continues until June 10, focuses on the showband era, which helped transform Irish social life from the late 1950s until the early 1970s.

It is the work of the Museum of Treasures in Waterford, where it was put on view last year, and has been loaned to the National Museum.