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1929 ESB Showroom 25 St. Stephen's Green
IE LMOD 750 · Item · Twentieth Century

A black and white photograph of the front of the ESB showroom which has 'Electrical Supply Board' written over the door. Can be dated 1929.

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1940s Entrance to St. Stephen's Green from Grafton Street
1940s Entrance to St. Stephen's Green from Grafton Street
IE LMOD 642 · Item · Twentieth Century

A black and white photograph of the Fusilier's Arch entrance into St. Stephen's Green taken from Grafton Street. 'Entrance to St. Stephen's Green from Grafton Street, Dublin. VR. 1677.' written on the picture itself along the bottom.

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1947 Éamon de Valera with Dr. Alan Thompson and Dr. Bethal Solomons
1947 Éamon de Valera with Dr. Alan Thompson and Dr. Bethal Solomons
IE LMOD 643 · Item · Twentieth Century

A black and white photograph of Éamon de Valera being greeted by Dr. Bethal Solomons with Dr. Alan Thompson in the background. The frame is captioned with the year and people photographed.

A rare photograph of then-Taoiseach Éamon de Valera smiling. De Valera is being greeted by Dr. Bethal Solomons at the Rotunda Bicentenary Congress. Dr. Solomons was “a world famous obstetrician and gynaecologist, rugby international, horseman, leader of liberal Jewry and of Irish literary and artistic renaissance.” Master of the Rotunda Hospital, he won ten caps on the Irish rugby team, was the first president of the Liberal Synagogue in Dublin, and was even mentioned in Finnegans Wake.

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1950 Dublin Market by Hulton Archive
1950 Dublin Market by Hulton Archive
IE LMOD 710 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of fruit and veg stalls with seller and pedestrians at a Dublin market. A general view of market stalls selling fruit and vegetables in Dublin, Ireland circa 1950.

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1950s Elephant Rides in Dublin Zoo
IE LMOD 610 · Item · Twentieth Century

A black and white photo of children queuing to ride an elephant with a number of children already on top.

Dublin Zoo opened in 1831, with 46 mammals and 72 birds donated by London Zoo. In 1840 the zoo made the radical decision to charge only a penny for entry on Sundays, thus endearing itself to many Dubliners. One of the best-loved zoo-keepers was Jimmy Kenny, who oversaw elephant rides in the 1950s and 1960s. Jimmy was the father of Pat Kenny, one of Ireland’s most famous broadcasters. Elephant rides are a thing of the past now, of course.

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1950s Fashion shoot on Baggot Street by Colman Doyle
1950s Fashion shoot on Baggot Street by Colman Doyle
IE LMOD 289 · Item · Twentieth Century

Print of a black and White photo of three models Dorothy Flynn, Peggy Cullen and Betty Whelan around a car taken on Baggot Street by Colman Doyle.
Models Dorothy Flynn, Peggy Cullen and Betty Whelan strike a pose for Colman Doyle at the top of Baggot Street. Betty Whelan, who had modelled for Christian Dior, founded her own modelling agency here in 1952. She was Arnotts’ regular hat model, the lady who launched a thousand hats, and a regular guest on the Late Late Show.

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1952 Lucian and Brendan by Daniel Farson
1952 Lucian and Brendan by Daniel Farson
IE LMOD 711 · Item · Twentieth Century

A black and white photograph of Lucian Freud and Brendan Behan chatting outside the Mansion House. From Getty 'German born English artist Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011), the grandson of psychologist Sigmund Freud, cigarette in hand, converses with Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923 – 1964) in Dublin.'

The artist Lucian Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, chats with Brendan Behan outside the Mansion House. Freud was a frequent visitor to Dublin in the 1950s. Behan was a novelist, poet and playwright, as well as a former member of the IRA. This picture was taken two years before his first major success, The Quare Fellow.

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1954 Selling Birds in Cages, Bride Street
1954 Selling Birds in Cages, Bride Street
IE LMOD 611 · Item · Twentieth Century

A black and white photograph of a crowd predominantly made up of men around the sale of birds in cages on a street.

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1955 Horse Drinking by Hulton Archive
1955 Horse Drinking by Hulton Archive
IE LMOD 712 · Item · Twentieth Century

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.'

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1956 George's Street Arcade
IE LMOD 613 · Item · Twentieth Century

A 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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