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Print of Bertie Ahern standing beside newspaper board with headline 'The Most Cunning of Them All' Headline is also on a Northside People newspaper by Graham Knuttel

Graham Knuttel painted gently satirical pictures of all the Taoisigh. This painting references Ahern’s reputation as a man of the people – his famous anorak, that pub in Drumcondra opposite his constituency office. Charlie Haughey’s much quoted description – “The Most Cunning of Them All” – refers to the other side of Ahern’s reputation.

A collection of photographs and negatives from the last race meeting at the Phoenix Park.

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.

Clay in small round blue container taken from the winning line at Phoenix Park racecourse at the last meeting on 6 October 1990.