'Day 7: #ExploreYourArchive
'DiscoPigs' was the breakthrough play for Enda Walsh in 1996 and which starred Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh. It was also produced as part of the 1997
@GIAF with material in the GIAF Archive
calmview.co.uk/NUIG/CalmVie...
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Day 7: #ExploreYourArchive
Enda Walsh's 'Disco Pigs' starring an early career Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh also ran in the Cork Opera House in 1997. This programme is part of the Dr Ros Dixon papers.
(calmview.co.uk/NUIG/CalmVie...)
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Black & white photo on a postcard of people dancing in a ballroom with an ornately decorated ceiling.
Postcard with an illustration of couples dancing, the women in are in long dresses, the men in a variety of outfits, in a ballroom under an arched ceiling
Today's #ExploreYourArchives theme is #EYADisco
In our collection about theatre and entertainment buildings, we have postcards of ballrooms - early discos...
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/discover-the...
A selection of leaflets from the Musicians' Union Archive.
The archives of @wearethemu.bsky.social trace its changing relationship with #ClubCulture over the years. By the 1990s the MU had fully embraced dance music in all its forms:
collections.stir.ac.uk/collections/...
#EYADisco #ExploreYourArchive
Black and white photograph of couples dancing, with women wearing knee-length party dresses
Black and white photograph of women dancing on a stage
Nurses having a ball for today's #disco -themed #ExploreYourArchive extravaganza!
#EYADisco #HistNursing #WednesdayVibes
An illustration of three cows, two hens, a bull and a cat all enjoying a barnyard disco.
Todays Explore Your Archive theme is Disco! Nothing says disco like Dioscó na mBó.
#EYADisco #EYA2024 #ExploreYourArchive @araireland.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @fsg-dcu.bsky.social #dcuspecialcollections
Black and white photo showing a group of people wearing historical costumes, some in drag, standing in front of a draped background. A foil sphere hands from the ceiling.
A renaissance disco ball! This photo shows Harefield Hospital staff performing a pantomime at Xmas in 1954.
[RLHHF/P/6/12]
#EYADisco #History #Archives #DiscoBall #Disco
#ExploreYourArchives
The Salvation Army benefited from a Victorian roller #disco craze. ‘Rinkomania’ saw 50 roller-rinks open in London alone in the 1870s. By 1886 more than 20 former 'rinks' had been taken over as Salvation Army halls and this one, in Cardiff, even became a women's hostel
#EYADisco
Silver glitterball suspended from ceiling.
Four rows of Searchroom book stacks seen from above. A silver glitterball hangs above in top centre. Dark curtains are drawn across stage at rear.
Does anyone else have a glitterball in the Searchroom?!! This one watches over us in our new home at Chingford Assembly Hall!
#ExploreYourArchive #EYADisco
An excerpt from an old handwritten book, a modernised version of which reads: ‘…my father pleased to order me, as: the French language, writing and speaking the same; singing, dancing, playing on the lute and theorbo’.
There are no discos in Thornton’s books. But, as a young girl in Dublin, she learned ‘singing, dancing, playing on the lute and theorbo’, which was befitting for a woman of her status. Sadly there are no further accounts of Thornton putting these skills into practice! #EYADisco #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜
Letter with very thin slanted handwriting. The white paper is edged with a scalloped designed in blue.
In the papers of the Rev John Owen of Derby is a lovely handwritten invitation to a quadrille party at Brierley Hall in 1860. A fashionable lively dance, the quadrille is danced in squares of four couples. The late 18th-19th century version of a disco?
#EYADisco #History #archives
Day 7: #ExploreYourArchive
College Week Times 1980s advertising student Rag Week events
#EYADisco
Lá 7: #CuardaighDoChartlann
College Week Times 1980í -fógraíocht ar imeachtaí seachtain na ngiobal
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A newspaper advert for Al Mansour Melia Disco Club. It offers: "The exotic and select get together place for dance, spectacular roof views where you can enjoy Baghdad at night from the top, fabulous drinks, dance and hear the latest international hit parades."
For #EYADisco we have an advert for the Al Mansour Melia Disco Club in Baghdad. According to the advert, it was “the most unusual disco club” in Baghdad and surely the best place to hear the hottest “international hit parades” 💃🎶
📷: EUL MS 143/19/8
Ticket for an event in 2016, colour photo is of the main entrance of Whitchurch Hospital with the water tower on the left.
Day 7 #ExploreYourArchive
#Disco
Who remembers this back in March 2016??
#EYADisco
#EndofanEra
#Whitchurchhospital
black and white photo of a large tent and a dance floor. A central pillar covered in lights holds the tent up
Dance pavilion interior, Festival Pleasure Gardens at Battersea, Festival of Britain, 1951.
Designed by James Gardner.
Photograph by Sydney W. Newbery, Stockwell Terrace.
James Gardner Archive
ID: LJG/2/6/1/14
#EYADisco #Disco #EYA #ExploreYouArchives @araukie.bsky.social
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Share your favourite archive items that relate to today’s theme - #EYADisco
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Lá 7 #CuardaighDoChartlann
Roinn na míreanna cartlainne is fearr leat a bhaineann le téama an lae inniu -
#EYADíoscó
Image of an LP cover showing the central Metropolitan Police Band in front of a building and statue of Sir Robert Peel at Hendon. In full uniform and helmets, they also hold woodwind and brass instruments. The caption reads 'ON THE BEAT / WITH / THE BAND OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE / INCLUDING / DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA / JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR / PUNCHINELLO / AMAZING GRACE / DELILAH / MY WAY". Small caption at the bottom reading 'CONDUCTOR MAJOR W. WILLIAMS / VOCALIST ALEXANDER MORGAN'.
Some of the tunes might not have been out of place at a #disco, but the Met's central band might well have been ... #EYAdisco #ExploreYourArchive #OnTheBeat
