A look at the way Ireland was charts the nation's change from single earner male-provider households via the flood of women into the workplace in the 70s and 80s.

This episode takes a look back at The Way We Shopped from the era of the small local shop to the dawn of the mammoth Irish Supermarket chains and the spectacular rise of a small Dublin Clothing Store called Penneys.

Archival footage tells a story, starting with the rise and fall of the Irish Holiday Resort; from a few days in Bray to a dream vacation on 'The Continent'.