Light blue with floral design strip pin tray that has the Dublin Crest in the centre with the motto ‘Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas’
Sem títuloPink General Ration Book 1948 issue. Serial number: 58541. Name: Patrick Delany. Address: 6 Ardbrugh Road, Dalkey, Dublin
During the ‘Emergency’ the Free State had a rationing system like that in Great Britain. Sugar, tea, butter, margarine, bread, flour and clothing were among the many items for which ration tickets were required. Poor families were hardest hit by the restrictions as bread was a central part of their diet. The most unpopular figure at the time was not Minister for Supplies Seán ‘half-ounce’ Lemass, but the notorious ‘glimmer man’ who went door-to-door to ensure that citizens were not using gas after hours.
Sem títuloSign with instructions on how to call a Dublin or Dún Laoghaire phone number. The sign explains 7 step by step instructions in how to make a phone call. It also gives instructions on how to call elsewhere.
Sem títuloA wooden box for Bells Dyers and Cleaners, Rathmines Road, Dublin. Gives the addresses of multiple locations in Dublin.
Sem títuloLetter headed letter from The Monument Creameries Ltd dated 4 May 1950 in regards to 46 Upper Baggot St and the valuation of the property.
Sem títuloColour photograph of O’Connell Street showing the GPO and Nelson’s Pillar as well as cars parked along the centre of the street taken by Colman Doyle.
This photograph shows the GPO on O’Connell Street. In 1966 the IRA blew up Nelson’s pillar, also pictured, and the Spire is now on the site that the pillar once occupied.
A print of a black and white photo showing people queueing, including some nuns, to see ‘Love Story’ at the Green Cinema on St. Stephen’s Green taken by Bill Doyle.
A queue for Love Story at the St Stephen’s Green Picture House (known as the Green) in 1971. Many nuns were not allowed to go to the theatre, but because films were censored, they were allowed to go to the cinema. The Green opened in 1935, one of the first to deviate from the lavish style of early cinemas, offering a more relaxed experience with less overbearing décor. The cinema survived until 1987.
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.
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Sem títuloBooks of poems by Pádraig Pearse and printed Maunsel and co Ltd. fiction, historic Ireland, 1900s, poetry, nationalism, paperback
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