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1960s Lourdes Holy Water Can
IE LMOD 495 · Item · Twentieth Century

Light blue, with dark blue and gold, can with a strap made to hold holy water from Lourdes. One side has a picture of the church, the other has a picture of the grotto and one of the narrow sides has a picture of Mary appearing to Bernadette with the caption 'Souvenir De Lourdes'

The town of Lourdes became a major site for Catholic pilgrimages after Mary was said to have appeared in the town. Mary issaid to have revealed the site of a spring to Bernadette, who dug and found water. Holy water from the spring is believed to have healing properties. Lourdes is still a popular place of pilgrimage for devout Catholics.

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1960s Miss Ireland Poster
1960s Miss Ireland Poster
IE LMOD 459 · Item · Twentieth Century

White with purple writing poster for 4 Provnices, Harcourt Street including ‘Sunday Final Miss Ireland’ ‘Earl Gill – Dublin’s Greatest Showband’ and others.

This poster advertises the Four Provinces ballroom on Harcourt Street. An iconic hangout for many years, the 4Ps later became the Television Club before being demolished. Showbands were popular between the mid 1950s and late 1970s; they usually featured a lead singer fronting brass and rhythm sections and a keyboard instrument, playing popular hits of the day. The Miss Ireland pageant has been running since 1947.

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1960s MiWadi label
1960s MiWadi label
IE LMOD 453 · Item · Twentieth Century

Yellow and white label with pink and green writing for ‘Mi-Wadi 6 Fruit Squashes and Mi-Wadi Glucose’ and lists the flavours.

MiWadi fruit squash is a part of many Dubliners’ childhoods. The name comes from the original parent company – Mineral Water Distributors, formed in 1927. MiWadi was originally sold in chemists, because cordials were thought to be good for sick people. In the 1970s, supermarkets such as Dunnes Stores started making MiWadi more accessible. In the 1980s it was oft en mixed with alcohol.

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1960s Money Counter
1960s Money Counter
IE LMOD 463 · Item · Twentieth Century

Silver Munster and Leinster Bank Money Counter counter with slots for each type of pre-decimalisation coin. The top has the bank’s name and crest in black and gold.

This money counter was for use with pre- decimalisation coins. Th e Munster and Leinster Bank was founded in 1885.

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1960s O'Connell Street by Coleman Doyle
IE LMOD 292 · Item · Twentieth Century

Colour 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.

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1960s Smithfield Fruit Market Tokens
IE LMOD 631 · Item · Twentieth Century

5 circular and 3 triangular brass coloured tokens that were used in the Smithfield market.

These tokens were used in Dublin’s fruit market in Smithfield. Tokens such as these would have been common in the city once. Some would have been used when there was an absence of actual coinage, while others would have been used by merchants catering to wealthy customers who disliked handling cash.

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1960s Sunbeam Advertisement
1960s Sunbeam Advertisement
IE LMOD 392 · Item · Twentieth Century

Blue, red and white Sunbeam poster. ‘Sunbeam The Marvellous Cleanser and Polisher for Household, Hotel and Factory. Excels all other scouring and cleansing powders and is The Pinnacle of Excellence. Packed in containers selling at 6d and 3d each. Manufactures by The Industrial Minerals of Ireland, Ltd. Dublin.’

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1960s Switzer's Box
1960s Switzer's Box
IE LMOD 346 · Item · Twentieth Century

Cardboard box with dark blue/navy and white stripes with Switzer's logo 'Switzer and Co Ltd Dublin'. Delivery information in the top right corner. Seams are stapled together.

Grafton Street was anchored by Switzer’s and Brown Thomas department stores. Switzer’s was the less elite of the two – many customers never crossed the street to shop in Brown Thomas. The basement café was an old-fashioned parlour with waitresses in black dresses and white aprons. Switzer’s was bought by Brown Thomas in 1995; BTs moved into the Switzer’s building across the street. You can still see the Switzer’s logo on the Wicklow Street side of Brown Thomas.

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1960s The Great Marvello
IE LMOD 513 · Item · Twentieth Century

Brightly coloured general knowledge board game 'The Great Marvello' with a black and white picture of Éamon Andrews. Contains 4 reversible quiz sheets and a plastic Marvello figure.

In this ‘magic robot’ game, a figurine tries to rotate to the correct answer. (Magnets, dear boy.) The game’s impresario, Eamonn Andrews, went to school in Synge Street CBS, just south of here. Andrews is best remembered as presenter of This Is Your Life, which he fronted for nearly 30 years until his death in 1987.

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