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Prospectus for St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham for year 1910 – 1911 Head Master Pádraig Pearse

This school prospectus encapsulates the two great loves of P.H. Pearse’s life: education and the Irish l anguage. Greatly encouraged by the example of Belgian schools, in 1908 Pearse founded Scoil Éanna in Ranelagh, a bilingual school for boys, followed shortly in 1910 by a girls’ school, Scoil Íde. As well as teaching through both Irish and English, Pearse pursued and pioneered a child-centred approach to education. His 1912 collection of essays, The Murder Machine, was an indictment of the British education system, placing Pearse at the forefront of educational innovation.

A stamped license for 2 dogs under the ‘Dogs Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1865’ dated 30 March 1912.

From the minutely-detailed collie on the stamps to the requirement for the clerk to sign the form in two separate places, this Dog Licence is no simple record of payment. It is a monument to the fusty bureaucracy of the British Empire.

Lr Gardiner St. Possibly 1930s – regularly stolen to heel shoes so holes were put in to stop that. Brown with numbers evenly spaced and with 3 holes. Also has initials BSU on it twice.

In the 1930s the Butchers Social Union found themselves faced with a mystery. Their leather bingo cards kept going missing. One day someone noticed that bingo players were stealing the cards to patch holes in their shoes. So the Union decided to stamp several holes in the cards, thus foiling the thieves.

A 1950s era typewriter for children, Mettoy Minor

Green sign with yellow writing 'Telefón Puiblí Public Telephone'

A small secular shrine with a black and white photo of Gainor Crist in a bronze coloured frame with the caption 'Small Secular Shrie to the Memory of Gainor Stephen Crist Ghost of the Ginger Man. 1995 D MacNamara' and on the back is written 'This is the ginger man's only memorial. Hang it where boozers booze, but fix firmly to wall. I couldn't find Paddy O'Briens, or any other ghost in McDaids so - It has to be Grogans. Mac'

Irish Edition of the game Monopoly with board, money, cards, houses, playing pieces and instruction.

Baby book from 1912, by Steedman's Soothing Powders. Details of baby Lilian Ruby Lee inside. Colour pages.