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A colour photo of Dublin along the Liffey showing the Ha’penny Bridge, Four Courts and traffic captioned ‘Aer Lingus Irish Airlines’ underneath with a shamrock.

A Captain America's menu from the 1970s for the Grafton Street branch. It has a colour comic on the front.

Mark Kavanagh opened Captain America’s on Grafton Street in 1971. It was not the first restaurant in Dublin to serve American-style burgers – but it was certainly a pioneer. Even iceberg lettuce was a rarity at the time. Chris de Burgh and Horslips played here in the early days.

Red writing on white background poster for a charity collection. ‘On behalf of the deserving poor of Dublin’ ‘Support Dublin’s Oldest Charity’
Dublin’s oldest charity was founded in 1790 as The Charitable Society for the Relief of Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers of all Religious Persuasions in the City of Dublin. The founders were a group of concerned middle-class men – including a grocer, a schoolmaster and a linen-draper – who wanted to alleviate the poverty in Georgian Dublin long before any government social welfare schemes.

A silver poster with a black design of a woman in a circle for the nightclub Elizabeth on Lesson's Street. Can be dated 1969.

Elizabeth’s was Leeson Street’s first and most famous discotheque. Owned by colourful promoter and DJ Maurice Boland, it sparked an explosion of nightclubs on Leeson Street. The Elizabeth in question is Liz Willoughby, a prominent woman in Dublin at the time.

Print of a colour photographic portrait of Charles Haughey taken during the 1970s by Colman Doyle
Charles Haughey’s career was chequered, and he lived rather well for a modest public servant. He was dismissed from the cabinet in 1970 along with Neil Blaney for allegedly conspiring to import arms into Northern Ireland for the IRA. Cleared of all criminal charges, Haughey fought to regain a seat in the cabinet, and later became party leader and Taoiseach.