The show had much to do in shaping the new Ireland that was emerging from the 1960s.

Talking about new Ireland he ought to go and get a new dog so he ought.

It outlined three possible alternative structures for a "new Ireland":

"I feel my responsibility to present a fair picture of the new Ireland very strongly," she continued.

In Toibin's new Ireland, home is where the healing is.

'You could see a new Ireland coming into being.'

But nothing is quite so simple in the new, emancipated Ireland.

Out of this national liberation struggle a new Ireland will emerge, upright and free.

In that new Ireland, we shall build a country fit for all our people to live in.

"There is a lot of stuff here that we won't be taking into the new Ireland."