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Cardboard Weir and Sons box with dark blue writing ‘Weir and Sons manufacturing Jewellers and Silversmiths. 96 Grafton Street and 1, 2 and 3 Wicklow Street, Dublin. 33 Donegal Place, Belfast.’ Also has two stickers with items ‘Silver Sweet Baskets’ and ‘Candle stick tops’ written on them.

Phone directory with brown and red cover with white writing. ‘Eolaí Telefóin na hÉireann Irish Telephone Directory Deireadh Fómhair – October – 1962

This small telephone directory covers the whole of the Republic of Ireland – and less than half the book is devoted to phone numbers outside of Dublin. The first pages contain instructions on using a phone, with advice like ‘replace receiver before re-dialling,’ and ‘speak directly into the transmitter.’ There was no standard emergency number in those days – it is 999, 9999, 10 or 0, depending on the user’s location.

Nusight magazine dated December 1969 with headline ‘Profile of the Sixties’ and a picture of Sean Lemass.

Black 1930s bicycle with wicker basket. Text 'Alex Findlater and Co. General Grocers Wine and Spirit Merchants, Dublin 1823 - 1969' on side of bike. Small wooden plaque on basket with text 'Alex Findlater & Co Ltd, A.I. Old Irish Whiskey, Trade AI Mark, Dublin, Rathmines, Blackrock, Kingston, Sandymount and Howth'
Alex Findlater and Co. started life in 1823, trading whiskey, wine and beer. The company expanded rapidly, adding general groceries to its alcohol trade, and became a major institution, with branches all over the city. This delivery bicycle was used by the company in the 1930s. (It was also used to launch the first annual Bloomsday Messenger Bike Rally in 1993.) Ultimately, pressure from supermarkets became too much for Findlaters’ more traditional service – as William Findlater had predicted at a 1902 staff meeting: “This brings up the question of packet goods, which is one of the curses of the trade, unless they bear our own brand. If this is encouraged much further it will mean the passing out of the grocer, and he will be replaced by a mere hander-out of packet goods, or, we will have nothing but girls behind our counters, which may be unpleasant to many of the young men present!”

Wooden table with inlay around edge, 2 drawers and on wheels. Fold out flaps on both sides of table.

Partially coloured map of Dublin Port and the Liffey from Eden Quay and O'Connell Street out to sea. 'Dublin Harbour Plan of Shipping Quays, Sheds and Tramways Under the Jurisdiction of the Dublin Port and Docks Board 1951'
Dublin was a port before it was a city. This map shows the quays, sheds and tramways under the jurisdiction of the Dublin Port and Docks Board in 1951. At the time, ships unloaded much further up the Liffey – the port moved downstream with the advent of larger container ships.

The map shows whole of Dublin and electoral areas. Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Co Dublin

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.