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Celebrating A Thousand Years with special design of castle on the front.
Dublin Corporation decided to celebrate Dublin’s millennium in 1988. This bottle is an iconic souvenir of that year. You’ll find one of these bottles in a Dubliner’s attic.

Reply to being asked when he thinks World War 2 will end. Jokes about Adolf Hitler retiring to Vice Royal Lodge, Dublin.
In 1943 the playwright George Bernard Shaw was living in London. Shaw went to school here on St. Stephen’s Green, and never lost his accent, even though he left Dublin at 20. A magazine called The Strand asked a number of writers when they thought the Second World War would end. “Nothing doing,” Shaw writes here, “I never prophesy until I know; and nobody yet knows where those two will end. My best guess is that Adolf will enjoy a dignified retirement in the Vice-Regal Lodge in Dublin, which is presumably to let at present.”

6 black and white phottos of Dublin in the aftermath of the Easter Rising 1916.
L1: Sinn Féin Rebellion, 1916 - Wrecked shops in Sackville Street, Dublin
L2: Sinn Féin Rebellion, 1916 - Smoking ruins on the side of the Liffey, Dublin
L3: Sinn Féin Rebellion, 1916 - Liberty Hall Dublin
R1: Corner of Abbey Street Dublin
R2: Sinn Féin Rebellion, 1916 - Hotel Metropole and Post Office Dublin
R3: Sinn Féin Rebellion, 1916 - Corner of Sackville Street, Dublin
In ascending order (left): wrecked shops on Sackville Street, smoking ruins on the side of the Liffey, the shelled remnants of Liberty Hall (headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union). (Right): damaged buildings on Abbey Street, the remains of the Hotel Metropole and the General Post Office, and the scene on a Sackville Street corner.

issued by the department of Posts and Telegraphs

Places of interest and historical notes about Dublin

coloured photograph of Maureen O'Caroll, framed

Given to Jack during WW1 and War of Independence and Emergency

framed edition of War News

State lottery ticket dated 1761 for the Benefit of the three United Hospitals. Issued to Captain Alcock by J. Coats. The "Three United Hospitals" were the Charitable Infirmary on Inns Quay, Mercer's Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables in Donnybrook.
Good causes have long relied on raffles to raise money. This lottery ticket from 1761 was issued in aid of the three United Hospitals: the Charitable Infirmary on Inns Quay, Mercer’s Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables in Donnybrook. Four years later, the Irish parliament established a nationwide hospital network funded by taxation and philanthropic donations.