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A colour photograph of three men dressed as switchboard operators on a float.
LMODBlack bookmark with U2 POP at the top
LMODA large colour poster of the Irish Football team for the World Cup in France, 1998 captioned 'Ireland's No. 1 Supporter' with the names of the team below and a list of the matches to be played.
This is not the last time that Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane would pose together for a photo, but the sight seems exotic nonetheless. Pre-Saipan, everyone presented a united front!
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Framed green poster promoting Il Florilegio Circus' show in Dublin Booterstown (in front of Black Rock College)
LMODA letter dated May 17 1996 from President Bill Clinton to Frank Feely, city manager, thanking him for his help during his trip to Ireland with the seal of the president at the top.
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Foldout map of the West Link (M50) then called the New Northern Cross Airport Motorway
LMODA black and white photographic portrait of Colm Tóibin in a room full of books with pages scattered on the ground taken by Perry Ogden.
Colm Tóibín stands in his office near Fitzwilliam Square. One of Ireland’s more astute commentators – and surely Dublin’s greatest networker – he was born in Wexford but has spent much of his life in the capital. Tóibín published his first novel, The South, in 1990, partly based on his experience of living in Barcelona. His other works include The Blackwater Lightship (1999) and a wonderful collection of short stories called The Empty Family (2010).
Black and white photograph of a boy, Martin Long, and a horse, Babyface, as taken by Perry Ogden in the 1990s for ‘Pony Kids'.
Perry Ogden is an acclaimed English photographer with a studio on Capel Street. His Pony Kids show was an artistic event of note in the mid-1990s. There is a subculture of young working class horse owners in Dublin’s inner city and some of the city’s most deprived suburbs. Horses and ponies are ridden bareback, bought and sold in Smithfield Square on the first Sunday of every month.
A colour collage made up of postcards showing a whale tail splashing in the Liffey and two people in a row boat with 'Dublin, Ireland' written in the top left corner. On the bottom left it is numbered 86/1000 and on the left is signed by the artist Seán Hillen
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A print of a black and white photograph of Sinéad O’Connor taken in 1995 with two Lock Hards by Bill Doyle.
Lock-hards were a fixture of Dublin life for decades. They would shout unsolicited parking advice, hoping for a fee. Peaked caps lent them a spurious air of authority. Sinéad O’Connor is an Irish singer who won fame with her cover of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2U’. She has often been a figure of controversy, expressing strong views on organised religion and women’s rights, most famously tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on US television. A Dubliner is someone who loves to remind you that Sinead O’Connor once worked as a waitress in the Bad Ass Café.