This is Mr. Gerald Flood and his good looking family in the 1930s. They lived in Castleboro, Co. Wexford, Ireland. The original black and white photograph came from the National Library of Ireland on The Commons (see the original here).

It has been beautifully colorized with rich, true to life colors by Okkama Colorizations, now providing services exclusively at The Psychogenealogist.

Here is a before and after comparison.

And here set to some music of the time:

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