Showing 2088 results

Framed tshirt of black and white picture of Brian Lenihan Snr with the caption 'Phone call, what phone call.'

This t-shirt mocks Brian Lenihan during the 1990 Presidential campaign. The aging statesman was caught spoofing in one of those classic Irish Presidential campaigns (long and bitter). With his credibility damaged, Lenihan lost the election to Mary Robinson.

Meeting race card for the last race meeting at the Phoenix Park racecourse dated 13 October 1990, signed by Christy Roche, winner of the last race riding Wild Jester.

‘Mary Robinson A President With a Purpose’ slogan underneath a black and white photo of Mary Robinson.

Mary Robinson was Ireland’s first female President. Elected in 1990 as an independent candidate with the backing of Labour and the Workers’ Party, she was also the first president elected without the support of Fianna Fáil. Robinson began her career as a senator, fighting to liberalise Ireland in the 1970s – access to contraception was one of her early causes, as well as abolishing a legal requirement that women in the civil service leave their jobs if they married. She was a legal advisor to the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, which eventually succeeded in overturning Ireland’s ban on homosexuality in 1992. As President, Mary Robinson revitalised the office, before becoming United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights.

Vol. 1 No. 1 November 26 1989

This is the first edition of the Sunday Business Post, dated November 26 1989. Edited by Damien Kiberd, the paper would benefit from much-increased levels of advertising as Ireland’s economic fortunes improved in the 1990s.

A colour poster for the Kerrygold Dublin Horse Show in the RDS 8-12 August 1989 with green writing a collection of photographs of the Horse Show.