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A colour poster for Guinness with the caption 'Black is beautiful' with a spread of pints of Guinness underneath.
This Black is Beautiful advert is one of the classic Guinness posters. Also a press advert, but known mostly as a poster, it would have featured as a full 48 sheet billboard. The glasses featured in the advert are known as Waterford tankards – the prototypes were produced by Waterford Glass, and then mass produced. They were used as the glass for draught Guinness from c. 1964 to 1982 – the first time that Guinness had designed a glass for its beer. The Waterford Tankard was replaced by a straight sided pint glass.
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A double-crown, silk-screen printed poster, after a design by Patrick Scott, for the Rosc exhibition in 1977, 'The Poetry of Vision'.
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small magazine, black and white cover
LMODA black and white postcard saying 'Fianna Fáil Candidates Dublin Finglas Area' showing black and white photographs of the three candidates with their professions underneath: Bertie Ahern (Accountant), Danny Bell (Councillor), Jim Tunney (shadow minister). Signed 'My first election, June '77 Bertie Ahern'
Bertie Ahern was either an anorak-wearing man of the people or a political operator so smooth that nothing would stick to him – the Teflon Taoiseach. He resigned in 2008, giving his successor the ultimate hospital pass.
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Black and white photograph of Francis Bacon taken by John Minihan in London in 1976 with the written caption ‘Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909, he died in Madrid, Spain in 1992. Bacon was one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. I first met the artist in the early 70s and would photograph him in London and Paris. Bacon worked with photographs, many of his friends were photographers.’
Francis Bacon was born up the road on Baggot Street. But like many other Dubliners – from Edmund Burke to Brendan Bracken – he saw himself as an Englishman. This photograph of Bacon was taken by John Minihan in 1976. Bacon’s paintings were famously bleak and emotionally raw. Margaret Thatcher once called him “that man who paints those dreadful pictures.”
A letter dated 28 October 1976 from Samuel Beckett to John Hughes, who lived in Beckett's old home, in which he lists his old schools and describes where he slept in the house. It includes the line 'If you ever meet my ghost in house or grounds, give it my regards.' Also a black and white photograph of the house in question as well as the envelope.
Playwright Samuel Beckett wrote this letter to schoolboy John Hughes, who was living in the house where Beckett grew up – Cooldrinagh in Foxrock. Say hello to my ghost, urges Beckett.
LMODIn Dublin 16-29 April 1976 (first edition) nonfiction, historic Dublin, 1900s, culture, entertainment, film, music, sport, lectures, paperback
The first edition of In Dublin magazine contains none of the acerbic opinion for which the magazine would later become famous. Upcoming events listed included the World Irish Dancing Championships and Yehudi Menuhin at the RDS.
'A supplement to the Irish Times May 18 1976'
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