You never know what you are going to find in an antique shop. That’s the joy of it; browsing around a curated lucky dip. So it was that I found myself in Athenry Antiques on Church Street in Co Galway earlier this summer, having a look-see. On a table at the back of the shop, there was a tattered magazine: The Irish Times Annual Review of 1966. Actually, only half of a magazine. Of its 100-plus pages referred to in the contents on page one, only 48 still remained. The magazine, “issued free as a supplement to The Irish Times on Jan 2nd 1967″, had eight men in suits on the cover. The main men in the photograph were the then recently resigned taoiseach Seán Lemass (with Jack Lynch, who succeeded him in November 1966, standing behind him) and the then British prime minister, Harold Wilson “signing the Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement, which came into force on July 1st, 1966”. January 2nd, 1967 was a Monday. Then, as now, the paper was not printed on a Sunday. The Annual Review could be purchased after that date for “two shillings & sixpence”, the cover stated.The price pencilled on the inside cover was €16, which I considered a bit steep for only around half of the magazine, but the woman behind the counter in the antique shop suggested a tenner instead, which I accepted. We both had a look around to see if the other half was anywhere nearby, but could not locate it.Anyway, off I went with my half of a 60-year-old magazine. As readers will know, The Irish Times newspaper archive has been digitised. However, it seems that some supplements, such as this one, were not included in this project. If you look at the digitised paper of January 2nd, 1967, the Annual Review magazine is promoted on the masthead, but the magazine itself is not in the digital archive. So while I only have half of it, that half turns out to be a rare insight into what this newspaper thought was worth including in its assessment of the year 1966. When I leafed through it, I was struck at once by the complete absence of women. Every byline is male: Michael McInerney, Political Correspondent; Wesley Boyd, Diplomatic Correspondent; William Hamilton; Tom McCaughren, Defence Correspondent; Garret FitzGerald; Patrick Nolan, Industrial Correspondent; John F O’Mahony; Michael J Harrington; Hugh O’Neill, Financial Editor; John Horgan, Education Correspondent. Every photograph that featured people is of men. The sole exception - how I guffawed hollowly - is on page 23. It’s a full page ad for The Irish Times itself, “Ireland’s leading opinion-forming newspaper”. The ad quotes circulation figures for the previous years, saying circulation went up by 2.3 per cent in 1965 and 8.3 per cent in 1966. “Its comprehensive financial section makes The Irish Times of special interest to business men,” the ad states. Presumably “business women” were not a thing back then.[ Dublin council to commission new monument honouring women of Ireland’s revolutionOpens in new window ]In the accompanying image are four serious-looking men. One is smoking.The Irish Times Annual Review 1966. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Of the annual review's advertised 100-plus pages referred to in the contents on page one, only 48 still remained. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times