Hugh Wallace: 'The bungalow is part of the Irish psyche'

Eve Kelliher looks at the homes that improved the affordable housing options available to rural dwellers in the 1970s

Actor Angela Lansbury pictured with her son and daughter at their bungalow at Conna, Co Cork, in 1972. 

This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a book that changed the appearance of the Irish landscape dramatically.

First hitting the shelves in 1971, Jack Fitzsimons’s Bungalow Bliss featured 20 plans for those iconic single-storey residences.