From the early 1970s the Irish midland town of Portlaoise became famous as the home of the country's maximum security political prison. A childhood on the Main Street of that "once congested, now double by-passed town" afforded prize-winning poet Pat Boran a unique insight into its workings, and into small-town life in general.
Here are extraordinary glimpses of bog men and bogey men, of the town's first colour television and the national debate...