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.
'U2 Rock's Hottest Ticket' cover page of Time Magazine 27 April 1987, No. 17 with a photo of U2 on the front.
LMODVol. 1 No. 1 November 26 1989
This is the first edition of the Sunday Business Post, dated November 26 1989. Edited by Damien Kiberd, the paper would benefit from much-increased levels of advertising as Ireland’s economic fortunes improved in the 1990s.
LMODThe cover of Nouveau magazine May 1999 No. 1 with a picture of man and the main headline 'The World's Most Famous Impostor'. Other headlines include 'Champagne Powder', 'Dirty, Filthy, Lucre', 'Offshore Gambling' and 'Liquid Traders'.
This periodical is evidence for the case that we lost the run of ourselves. Only in Ireland in the year 1999 could a magazine aimed at the rich be called Nouveau without a shred of irony. Ken Bryan, the magazine’s publisher, writes in his first editorial: “By all accounts, the risks [of publishing] are minimal.” Nouveau closed shortly afterwards.
LMOD22 photographs (originals and copies of, showing Smyllie and Simmington at staff functions 1929-1936
LMODVarious designs, blue stripe at top with Callcard in white text
LMODClippings of Times Past column, several marked with dates from 1990
LMODIn Dublin Magazine Culture Issue 1991
LMOD4x 'Dandy' comic books, 1994
LMODRonan Keating on cover
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