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Black rotary telephone.
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Colour lithograph of 5 horses standing on top of the world. ‘Dublin Horse Show August 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 1957. Great International Jumping Competitions. Travel to Ireland the easy way Fly Aer Lingus.’
LMODA black and white photograph of inside George's Arcade showing shop fronts and two cars parked inside.
The George’s Street Arcade was the first purpose-built shopping centre in Dublin. The current building dates from 1894, after the original was destroyed in a fire. The market was initially unpopular with Dubliners, as neither local architects nor builders were employed, and no Dublin dignitaries were invited to the opening ceremony. A wave of public sympathy for the stallholders followed the fire, and part of the rebuilding costs were paid for by public subscription. Today, fortune tellers, record shops and body piercing studios have taken the place of electrical factors and paper shops. (It remains home to one of Dublin’s great literary retreats, Stokes Books.)
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An Invitation from the Director of the Gaiety Theatre to the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Lady Mayoress inviting them to the reopening of the Gaiety Theatre on Friday 25 November 1955.
An invitation to the Lord Mayor of Dublin to attend the performance that re-opened the Gaiety on the 25th of November, 1955. The Gaiety had been forced to close ten months previously when Dublin Corporation condemned the upper circle balcony as unsafe. The auditorium had to be redesigned with safer exits before the Gaiety could re-open. Denis Larkin, son of the famous labour activist Jim Larkin, was Lord Mayor at the time.
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A colour photograph of a horse drinking from a trough in the street while parents a child in a buggy watch. From Getty 'A family is amused by a horse drinking from a trough in Dublin on 1 January 1955.'
LMODTickets to the reopening of the Gaiety Theatre, 25 November 1955 for a private box, belonging to the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Lady Mayoress. Orange with black writing and blue ink.
LMODA black and white photograph of the Shamrock Rovers football team.
Shamrock Rovers F.C. was founded in Ringsend in 1901. This celebrated club has supplied more players to the Irish national team than any other, and it remains the most successful club in Irish history. Shamrock Rovers have always worn a green and white striped strip (until 1926 the stripes were vertical).
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A black and white photograph of a crowd predominantly made up of men around the sale of birds in cages on a street.
LMODA black and white photograph of a group of people boarding a Howth tram.
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