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A black and white advertisement for Guinness titled '1759-1959 200 Years of Guinness' and numbered GD.1 the first Irish press advertisement for Guinness stout. It has a picture of Arthur Guinness on the left and some text describing a little of the development of Guinness.

Guinness advertising has been iconic for a long time, but most of the advertising now seen in pubs here was never used in Ireland. This is an original proof of the first print ad ever published in Dublin. GD1, as it is known, was produced in 1959 – the bicentenary of the company.

Book with white cover and red writing. ‘Dublin Horse Show August 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 1958’ The cover also has the RDS logo.

Colour lithograph of 5 horses standing on top of the world. ‘Dublin Horse Show August 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 1957. Great International Jumping Competitions. Travel to Ireland the easy way Fly Aer Lingus.’

An Invitation from the Director of the Gaiety Theatre to the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Lady Mayoress inviting them to the reopening of the Gaiety Theatre on Friday 25 November 1955.

An invitation to the Lord Mayor of Dublin to attend the performance that re-opened the Gaiety on the 25th of November, 1955. The Gaiety had been forced to close ten months previously when Dublin Corporation condemned the upper circle balcony as unsafe. The auditorium had to be redesigned with safer exits before the Gaiety could re-open. Denis Larkin, son of the famous labour activist Jim Larkin, was Lord Mayor at the time.

A colour photograph of a horse drinking from a trough in the street while parents a child in a buggy watch. From Getty 'A family is amused by a horse drinking from a trough in Dublin on 1 January 1955.'