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Lon sa Speir – “Men at Lunch" - TG4 - 7.15pm

  • 25-02-2017 6:46pm
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    Patty O Furniture
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    This is a welcome repeat of the untold story of the iconic image during the construction of the RCA building (now the GE building) in Rockefeller Center,

    Also known as ‘Lunch atop a skyscraper’

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    On September 29th 1932 Daredevil photographer Charles Ebbets took a legendary photograph showing 11 workers having a lunch break on the 69th floor of the RCA Building (now the GE Building) 850 feet above New York, during the last months of construction. Most of the men have now been identified by family members.

    The men at the extreme left and extreme right are thought to be Matty O’Shaughnessy and Patrick (Sonny) Glynn, both from Shanaglish, near Gort, County Galway. The two emigrants had left Shaneaglish in Galway in the 1920s destined for a new life in America.

    The man sitting fourth from the right is Francis Michael Rafferty and to his right is his lifelong best friend Stretch Donahue. On the same day Ebbets took another photo of the same workers called Men Asleep on a Girder, which shows the same workers napping on the beam. In this photo at the extreme left and extreme right of the photo are Matty O’Shaughnessy and Patrick (Sonny) Glynn, who were in the south of the county.


    We all must have someone who worked abroad in such projects like this all over the world.
    Like most that time, i had a brother who worked in the channel tunnel & another in the Jubilee Line.

    Here are a few links with more info & pics.



    Galway Film Fleadh

    IFTN


    http://www.thisisirishfilm.ie/trailers/men-at-lunch-lon-sa-speir

    http://irishamerica.com/2012/07/galway-celebrates-photographs-irish-connection/

    https://twitter.com/menatlunchfilm

    Here's the trailer for the show:



    It also featured in Time's 100 photos project



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