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Brown bow with green and yellow ‘Dublin Laundry Co. Ltd. Milltown’ ‘Send us your dry cleaning’ with strap and buckle to hold it closed. Two year guarantee inside box that it will not break.

A typed letter from Hayes and Sons Solicitors, 15 St. Stephen’s Green, dated 7 November 1952.

Note the address. This politely worded invoice is from Hayes and Sons, former occupants of 15 St Stephen’s Green. It was a prominent law firm, with five partners in 1952 when the letter was written. Louis Wilfred Webb, one of the partners who worked in this room, owned Ballawley estate, part of the land on which the Dundrum Shopping Centre is now built.

A black and white photograph of Lucian Freud and Brendan Behan chatting outside the Mansion House. From Getty 'German born English artist Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011), the grandson of psychologist Sigmund Freud, cigarette in hand, converses with Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923 – 1964) in Dublin.'

The artist Lucian Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, chats with Brendan Behan outside the Mansion House. Freud was a frequent visitor to Dublin in the 1950s. Behan was a novelist, poet and playwright, as well as a former member of the IRA. This picture was taken two years before his first major success, The Quare Fellow.

A receipt for the Monument Creameries Ltd. Addressed to Mr Joseph G Aller, 6 Clare Street, Dublin in regards to rent for 46 Upper Baggot Street.

The Monument Creameries was a chain of shops that was founded on Parnell Street in 1920 by Séamus and Agnes Ryan (née Harding). The Hardings were Republican activists during the War of Independence, and Séamus was later elected to the Seanad. The Parnell Street branch was the first of 36, and the family lived in the wealthy Dublin suburb of Foxrock. Kathleen Ryan, an actress, and John Ryan, an artist, writer and benefactor of many other artists, were among the Ryans’ eight children.

Letter headed letter from The Monument Creameries Ltd dated 4 May 1950 in regards to 46 Upper Baggot St and the valuation of the property.

1954 Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh at Martello Tower. A black and white photo of Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh on Bloomsday, 16 June, 1954 outside the Martello Tower, Sandycove, Co. Dublin

Bloomsday was first celebrated on the 16th of June 1954, the 50th anniversary of the day on which the story of James Joyce’s Ulysses took place. Poets Anthony Cronin (on the left) and Patrick Kavanagh (on the right) are pictured here with publisher John Ryan at the Martello tower in Sandycove, where Joyce once lived.

Black with yellow writing sign from Dublin Port and Docks Board. Notice that the Port won’t be accountable or liable for any loss or damage of goods. Dated 31st Day of May, by order J. P. Murphy, secretary.

A black and white photograph of a crowd predominantly made up of men around the sale of birds in cages on a street.

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.'

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.