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1993 Mother Teresa’s Freedom of Dublin
IE LMOD 470 · Item · Twentieth Century

Letter from the Lord Mayor, Gay Mitchell’s office saying ‘Breakfast on the occasion of the conferring of the Honorary Freedom of the city of Dublin on Mother Teresa 2nd June, 1993’ and lists the menu which is made up of Irish produce.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta trained at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham. This letter from the office of the Lord Mayor confirms the breakfast menu for the occasion of her acceptance of the Freedom of Dublin. The food was provided by Superquinn, and a traditional full Irish breakfast included bacon, sausages, eggs, tomatoes and black and white pudding. Mother Teresa was not a vegetarian.

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1992 Trinity Ball Quatercentary Ticket
IE LMOD 583 · Item · Twentieth Century

A purple ticket with shiny writing for the Quatercentary Trinity Ball. Blacktie ad on back.

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1992 Mike Hogan Cartoon
1992 Mike Hogan Cartoon
IE LMOD 462 · Item · Twentieth Century

Cartoon of Mike Hogan dressed as Superman with a mobile phone down the front of his pants and ‘Howya Horse’ on his crest.

Mike Hogan adds to the gaiety of the nation. This is perhaps the sincerest compliment in Dublin. A former Eye in the Sky, Hogan bought the iconic In Dublin magazine for £6,500 when it was in financial trouble and succeeded in turning it around, despite courting scandal with ads for ‘massage parlours’. Hogan once owned 38 magazines. He now works with telecoms magnate Denis O’Brien.

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1992 Fourth Birthday Party for Norris
IE LMOD 622 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of Senator David Norris addressing a group of people outside the gates to the Dáil with a big pink cake reading happy birthday and candles.

A seminal moment in the struggle for gay rights in Ireland, captured by the great Christopher Robson. In October 1988, David Norris won his case in the European Court of Human Rights that the criminal laws on homosexuality were unjust and must be changed. Four years later, the Government had done nothing to implement these changes, and indeed stated that such law reforms “were at the bottom of the list of priorities.” In response, the Gay & Lesbian Equality Network [GLEN] held a “Fourth Birthday Party for Norris.” A huge pink cake was carried through the city, and TDs and Senators were invited to the party outside the Dáil, which was addressed by Senator Norris.

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1991 Panorama Photo of Dublin City
1991 Panorama Photo of Dublin City
IE LMOD 305 · Item · Twentieth Century

A poster of a panoramic photograph over looking Dublin City taken for the European City of Culture, 1991 with the quote ‘... from swerve of shore to bend of bay ...’ Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce.
This photo commemorates Dublin’s reign as European City of Culture in 1991. The Scottish Ballet came over to symbolically hand over the title from Glasgow, and there was a 31-hour reading of Ulysses on the radio.

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1991 Jonathan Philbin Bowman by Conor Horgan,
IE LMOD 776 · Item · Twentieth Century

There is a messer in every Dublin classroom. Jonathan Philbin Bowman was a freelance messer, at large in the city at a time – the late
1980s – when most of his peers were at school or college. The son of broadcaster John Bowman and his wife Dr Eimer Philbin Bowman, Jonathan had little time for conventional education, and was almost comically precocious. A fine mimic and boisterous conversationalist, he parlayed avocation as a journalist into an unlikely role at the centre of Dublin society. In the Coffee Inn, a famous dive-café on South Anne Street, the house speciality was the Bowman Burger (20p): one microwaved bowl of hot air. Their best customer was, of course, JPB. A great Dubliner, he died in 2000 at the age of 31.

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