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1989 My Left Foot Movie Poster
IE LMOD 701 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour movie poster for My Left Foot, with a hand drawn picture of the various characters on the left and quotes of praise for the film and actor and production information on the right.

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1989 John Gormley Election Poster
IE LMOD 511 · Item · Twentieth Century

John Gormley election poster for the Green Party. Has the text 'Others promise the moon only we guarantee the earth!' in black and green. Shows a black and white picture of the view of earth from the moon and one of John Gormley.

The Irish Green Party was founded in 1981 as the Ecology Party, changing its name to the Green Party in 1987. This poster is from the 1989 general election, the first time that the party used pictures of the candidates; they had been wary of the ‘cult of personality’ in politics. That’s why the picture of the earth is the same size as the picture of the candidate. The Greens did much better than anyone expected in the election, but no one in the party had much political acumen, so they only won one seat. John Gormley was eventually elected to Dublin City Council in 1991, served as Lord Mayor from 1994-95, and later led the party in a coalition with Fianna Fáil.

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1989 First Issue Sunday Business Post
1989 First Issue Sunday Business Post
IE LMOD 600 · Item · Twentieth Century

Vol. 1 No. 1 November 26 1989

This is the first edition of the Sunday Business Post, dated November 26 1989. Edited by Damien Kiberd, the paper would benefit from much-increased levels of advertising as Ireland’s economic fortunes improved in the 1990s.

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1989 Dublin Horse Show Poster
1989 Dublin Horse Show Poster
IE LMOD 657 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour poster for the Kerrygold Dublin Horse Show in the RDS 8-12 August 1989 with green writing a collection of photographs of the Horse Show.

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1988 Valedictory Verses by Séamus Heaney
1988 Valedictory Verses by Séamus Heaney
IE LMOD 435 · Item · Twentieth Century

Signed print of the poem Valedictory Verse by Seamus Heaney ‘composed for the Carysfort Graduation Exercises, 1988’ with an illustration of Carysfort College, Blackrock, Co. Dublin in the top right corner. Dated June 2011.

Séamus Heaney wrote this poem to mark “a significant moment in the history of Dublin” – the closure of Carysfort College in Blackrock. The Nobel-prize winning poet taught at the teacher-training college between 1975 and 1981, before he took up a position at Harvard. Carysfort was founded in 1877 as a college for Catholic girls who wished to become teachers. Other lecturers at the college included Éamon de Valera and Eoin MacNeill, co-founder of the Gaelic League and founder of the Irish Volunteers. The poem was written, as Heaney notes, “to mark the end of an era.”

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1988 The Millennium Car
IE LMOD 303 · Item · Twentieth Century

The registration plate for the Lord Mayor, Carmencita Hederman's car from 1988 with the special registration number 88-D-1000
This is the number plate from the Lord Mayor Carmencita Hederman’s car in 1988. The Lord Mayor’s car registration is normally D-1, but was changed to D-1000 specially for the Millenium year.

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1988 The Lord Mayor's Millenium Award
1988 The Lord Mayor's Millenium Award
IE LMOD 398 · Item · Twentieth Century

The Dublin City Seal from the thirteenth century, the earliest item in the City Regalia, gifted in a special presentation book to Ollie Campbell by the Lord Mayor Ben Briscoe. ‘The city is portrayed at peace by a ship at sail in a sea of plenty; on the obverse the city gates are shown under siege with two sentries sounding the alarm, while two archers take aim with their crossbows. On the city walls to heralds also sound the alarm, and on the gates in the foreground are impaled the heads of three offenders as a dire warning’ ‘Stamped around the rim on both sides are the words “Sigillum Commune Dublinie” or “The Common Seal of the City of Dublin”’ The presentation box itself is signed by Ben Briscoe and has a picture of the Mansion House on the cover.

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1988 Signed Ireland V. Scotland Commemorative Toy Rugby Ball
IE LMOD 516 · Item · Twentieth Century

A Harp Lager commemorative toy rugby ball for the Rugby World Cup 1988 Ireland V. Scotland 16 January signed by Hugo MacNeill and some other members of the team. It also has the flags of the teams taking part in the World Cup.

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1988 Millennium wrist watch in box 1
1988 Millennium wrist watch in box 1
IE LMOD 2417 · Item · Twentieth Century

Commemorative navy and blue wristwatch from the Dublin Millennium 1988 with instructions

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