1984 Revisited: The dystopian predictions largely failed to materialise...
1984 was a seminal year in Ireland. Forty years on, our writers look back at some of the scandals and stories that made the headlines and helped shape the Ireland of today
After 15-year-old Ann Lovett died while giving birth beside a grotto in Granard, Co Longford, hundreds of women wrote to Gay Byrne about their own secret pregnancies, incest, and rape. A stunned nation listened as many of them were read out on Byrne's morning radio programme. Picture: RTÉ Archives
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” — George Orwell, '1984'
Imagine waking up and realising you’ve been teleported back to 1984. A cranky old man, a former Hollywood star, no less, is president of the United States. Garret Fitzgerald is Taoiseach.
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