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Sep 2009
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DocArchive: One Potato, Two Potato, Thre...

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This documentary was recorded in the 1977 ‘hula-hoop season’. Pat Ingoldsby goes looking for the street songs and games sung and played by Dublin children, in what is now a fascinating oral history of the city. (First broadcast 1977)

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