Lunch skyscraper fake8/14/2023 ![]() Firstly, in order to set and maintain the theme, there’s the wider context – the glory of the skyscraper age and the building of the iconic Manhattan skyline. Very early in the process of making this documentary I became aware that this film called for storytelling on many levels. From there we built up a good relationship with the two families and both the Glynns and O’Shaughnessys are featured in the documentary. We spoke to Michael Whelan the owner of the pub who gave us Pat’s contact. We realised very quickly that there was a great untold story here. On the note he stated that the man on the far right holding the bottle was his father Sonny Glynn, and the man on the far left was Matty O’Shaughnessy his uncle-in-law. ![]() ![]() The note was from Pat Glynn from Boston, Massachusetts – the son of a Shanaglish emigrant. While there we noticed the famous Lunch Atop A Skyscraper image, but we took real interest in a note beside the picture. My brother and I were in South Galway a few years ago researching a documentary on the blind poet Raftery and we called into Michael Whelan’s pub in the village of Shanaglish. Part homage, part investigation, our new film Lón sa Spéir/Men at Lunch is the revealing tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York. The locals here are convinced that two of the elusive men photographed on the beam in 1932 hailed from their village. ![]() One of which surfaced in the south Galway village of Shanaglish outside Gort. And yet, in all that time, the identity of the eleven men has remained a mystery: their names – like that of the photographer that took the picture – lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself.īut then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. In the 80 years since it was taken, this counterpoint of the epic and the mundane has become one of the world’s most famous images – a cultural icon and an indomitable symbol of the working man. AT THE HEIGHT of the Great Depression, eleven workers with their boots dangling sit side by side on a steel beam eating lunch – Central Park and the misty Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them. ![]()
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