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A Captain America's menu from the 1970s for the Grafton Street branch. It has a colour comic on the front.

Mark Kavanagh opened Captain America’s on Grafton Street in 1971. It was not the first restaurant in Dublin to serve American-style burgers – but it was certainly a pioneer. Even iceberg lettuce was a rarity at the time. Chris de Burgh and Horslips played here in the early days.

A colour photo of Dublin along the Liffey showing the Ha’penny Bridge, Four Courts and traffic captioned ‘Aer Lingus Irish Airlines’ underneath with a shamrock.

A small, round, off white, speckled clay honey pot with Abbeville Honey written on the front.

This jar reveals a largely undocumented passion of Charles J. Haughey. Throughout his life he was an avid beekeeper. Haughey collected honey from bees in Abbeville, his Georgian mansion in Kinsealy, and gave it to family and friends in jars such as this one – presented by his son, Seán, to the museum.

A black and white photograph of two girls playing on Sandymount Strand with three other people visible in the background.

A print of a black and white photo of an elderly man selling the Evening Herald standing beside sign with headline ‘All Well In Moon Craft’ taken on Leeson Street taken by Bill Doyle.
In Bill Doyle’s iconic photo the headline ‘All well in Moon Craft’ refers to the Apollo 11 mission. For many years street vendors sold the Evening Herald and the Evening Press, which led to the catch-all cry “Heralorpress!” The two papers enjoyed a healthy rivalry for many years, but the market is on the wane nowadays and only the Herald survives. It is still sold on the streets, but modern hawkers are rather less vocal.

A black and white photo taken in 1969 of four little girls playing skipping in front of the flats in Ballymun, Dublin.

From Getty 'A group of boys and girls make faces as they pose for the camera, Dublin, Ireland.'

One of each coin, sewn into plastic

2011 reproduction of the black, red and white Che Guevara print, signed by the artist Jim Fitzpatrick to the museum.

An iconic image, this print is from Jim Fitzpatrick’s original silk screening of Alberto Korda’s photograph of Argentinian revolutionary Ché Guevara. A proud Dubliner, Fitzpatrick created the image on Guevara’s death. “When he was murdered,” explains Fitzpatrick, “I wanted to do something about it, so I created the poster. This image had to come out, or he would not be commemorated otherwise, he would go where heroes go, which is usually into anonymity.” Fitzpatrick produced the image without copyright, only obtaining a copyright in 2010, and has since granted the rights in perpetuity to the Guevara family.