Celebrating A Thousand Years with special design of castle on the front.
Dublin Corporation decided to celebrate Dublin’s millennium in 1988. This bottle is an iconic souvenir of that year. You’ll find one of these bottles in a Dubliner’s attic.
Green match box with white writing 'Whites on the Green Restaurant'. Includes matches with white heads.
White’s on the Green was a French restaurant owned by Peter White and his wife Alicia. Head chef Michael Clifford admired nouvelle cuisine, and fans of his cooking included Charles Haughey and Karl Lagerfeld. While only open for four years during a bleak period in Dublin’s culinary history, the restaurant had an influence.
LMOD'U2 Rock's Hottest Ticket' cover page of Time Magazine 27 April 1987, No. 17 with a photo of U2 on the front.
LMODTwo school reports for Denis Hickie from St. Mary's College, Rathmines. The opened 1987 report has the observation 'Dennis has made good progress this term, but he could do better if he could concentrate more and be less fidgety in class.'
Denis Hickie was one of the best wingers Ireland ever had. Born in 1976, he attended St Mary’s in Rathmines (where this report is from) before going on to college in UCD. Hickie was known as Disco Denis on the pitch – a tribute to his dancing feet – and represented Ireland on 51 occasions.
LMODA black and white photography of Lord Mayor Carmencita Hederman presenting a book of condolences signed by the people of Dublin to the people of Enniskillen following the Enniskillen bombing November 1987.
In November 1987 eleven people were killed when an IRA bomb exploded during a Remembrance Day Service in Enniskillen. Carmencita Hederman, who was Lord Mayor at the time, remembers: “When a Book of Condolences was opened in the Mansion House, we kept having to run back down to Eason’s to buy new books because so many people turned up. At a memorial service in Enniskillen, I presented the book on behalf of the people of Dublin.” This photograph was taken during that service – note the presence of one Charles J Haughey.
LMODA colour poster from the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS 59 August 1986 with a list of what events that are happening each day under a drawing of a man riding a horse.
LMODBlack and white photograph of Samuel Beckett taken by John Minihan in Paris in 1985 with the written caption ‘Samuel Beckett photographed near his home on Boulevard St Jacques, Paris, 1985.’
Samuel Beckett grew up in Foxrock, but spent most of his life in Paris, where he is here captured near his home on the Boulevard St. Jacques. Beckett is most famous for his minimalist plays, often laced with dark humour, like Waiting for Godot and Endgame. The man who took this photograph, John Minihan, is an engaging figure who recalls his youth with a puckish twinkle.
2 magazine covers from November 1985 framed together. First cover is Magill, November 14 1985 with the headline ‘Anglo Irish Agreement – In the Shadow of the Gunmen’ There are photos of Garrett Fitzgerald and Margaret Thatcher along with the silhouette of an armed man on the page background. The second cover is The Phoenix, Vol 3, No 23, November 22, 1985 with the headline ‘Peace in Our Time’ with captioned photos of Charles Haughey and Garret Fitzgerald saying ‘What’s Maggie doing about the extremists?’ ‘She didn’t even mention you.’
The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed by Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald (‘Garret the Good’) and Margaret Thatcher on 15 November 1985, with the intention of creating peace in Northern Ireland. The Provisional IRA and loyalist paramilitaries rejected the agreement and continued fighting. Magill was a left-wing magazine founded by Vincent Browne in 1977. John Mulcahy’s Phoenix is an Irish Private Eye.