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Podcast: On The Record with Gavan Reilly Highlights
Episode: Hidden Histories: The Empire State Building
Description: Today is the anniversary of the opening of one of the world’s great landmark buildings, with a story connected to Ireland and Irish labour in many ways.
On 1st May 1931, President Herbert Hoover symbolically pushed a button in the White House that supposedly turned on the lights of the Empire State Building.
The gesture was merely symbolic, but in New York a building that would change the appearance of a city forever was finally completed, ahead of time and under budget.
Gavan Reilly was joined by Donal Fallon for another episode of Hidden Histories to discuss.
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