"Ballyscunnion" was an imaginary village located in Ireland and created by the artist William St. John Glenn, who documented the day-to-day activities of the village's occupants in pictorial form. St John Glenn's work was published on a monthly basis in the Dublin Opinion magazine, a humorous, pictorial magazine which appeared monthly as "light relief" from the turbulent period following the birth of the nation. The work was produced on a scraperboard, a type of board with a clay surface that is painted with black ink - the ink is eventually scratched off with a blade for the creation of the illustrations' details. The long-lasting series commenced in the 1930s and ceased only in the 1960s with the closure of the magazine.