See http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=46743 for 1949 film footage of (two-way) traffic chaos in the centre of Ennis, the opening of the Old Ground Hotel, etc.
Use the search facility on the same page to find footage of the Shannon Scheme construction, three different air crashes at Shannon airport, and a few other items of Clare interest.
Ennis 1949 in British Pathé newsreel
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