Print of Garret Fitzgerald sitting at a desk with multiple objects around him including a train, airplane, books on maths and a calendar on March 16 by Graham Knuttel

Black and white photograph of Francis Bacon taken by John Minihan in London in 1976 with the written caption ‘Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909, he died in Madrid, Spain in 1992. Bacon was one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. I first met the artist in the early 70s and would photograph him in London and Paris. Bacon worked with photographs, many of his friends were photographers.’
Francis Bacon was born up the road on Baggot Street. But like many other Dubliners – from Edmund Burke to Brendan Bracken – he saw himself as an Englishman. This photograph of Bacon was taken by John Minihan in 1976. Bacon’s paintings were famously bleak and emotionally raw. Margaret Thatcher once called him “that man who paints those dreadful pictures.”

four caricatures and one comic

• Sean O'Casey, Author of 'Juno and the Paycock', etc.;
• Arthur Shields [the Abbey actor] as 'Hyacinth Halvey' [in the play by Lady Gregory];
• Miss Sara Allgood [the Abbey actress], signed twice;
• Untitled, probably Lennox Robinson, the Abbey manager and playwright;
  And with a signed hand-coloured print of her well-known drawing reprinted from the Irish Times showing W.B. Yeats and George Russell passing each other on Merrion Square, one with his head in the clouds, the other looking down at his feet.
  Isa Macnie [1869-1958] was an Irish cartoonist and caricaturist; her book 'The Celebrity Zoo' was published in 1925. She was also an active suffragette, an actress, a pianist and a noted sportswoman (she was Irish ladies' croquet champion in 1907). Her father was a Scottish printer who moved to Dublin

Harry Kernoff RHA limited sketch of Mme Eveline Kirkwood-Hackett. Actress. Born Eveline Mary Kirkwood. She ran a school of Elocution and modern Acting at The Stidio, 45 Dawson Street, Dublin.
It's quite fashionable for museums to have an artist in residence. We have a curator in heaven. Her name is Madame Kirkwood Hackett, and she ran an elocution and drama school on Dawson Street, just around the corner.

A hand-carved commemorative wooden plaque celebrating Dublin's millennium. '988' and '1988' carved into plaque along with carvings of medieval and modern structures including the Four Courts and a striking Viking longboat.