Iconic photo shot 80 years ago today still intrigues (VIDEO) (IrishCentral)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:17:25 PDT

Eighty years ago today, an intrepid photographer created the iconic image of eleven ironworkers, casually dangling their feet hundreds of feet above 5th Avenue while breaking for lunch on an exposed steel beam they had likely riveted into the framework of the rising 30 Rockefeller Center Many, if not most, of these rugged individuals were almost certainly Irish AmericansAnd despite the fact that the builders anticipated one laborer's death for every ten floors constructed, the men on the beam were happy to be high in the sky when about a third of their fellow citizens down below were out of work in Depression-era New YorkIrish Filmmaker Seán Ó Cualáin is among the many who have fallen under this picture's spell, investing much of his past five years exploring it in a nearly finished documentary READ MORE

Susan Boyle wows fans at Rockefeller Center in New York- WATCH VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:50:25 PST

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Iconic photo shot 80 years ago today still intrigues (VIDEO) (IrishCentral)

Susan Boyle wows fans at Rockefeller Center in New York- WATCH VIDEO (IrishCentral)