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1970s RTÉ Stamp
1970s RTÉ Stamp
IE LMOD 356 · Item · Twentieth Century

Metal block with raised outline of RTÉ and the St Bridget cross logo.

RTÉ has its origins in 1926, with the creation of 2RN, Ireland’s first radio station. The 1960 Broadcasting act changed its name to Radio Éireann, and made provisions for a new television channel, Telefís Éireann. The introduction of television in 1961 was a major catalyst for social change in Ireland, with imported British and American TV shows and home-grown content like the Late Late Show providing a platform for discussing taboo subjects like contraception and homosexuality.

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1970s Sudocrem Tub
IE LMOD 564 · Item · Twentieth Century

330g semi clear tub with white lid of Sudocrem with label on front and back. 'Sudocrem antiseptic healing cream. For napkin rash, bedsores, surface wounds, sunburn, eczema, chilblains, acne, minor burns.

Believe it or not, Sudocrem was invented in Dublin in 1931 by a pharmacist, Thomas Smith. It was originally called “Smith’s Cream”.

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1970s The Royal Hibernian Hotel Drinks Mat
1970s The Royal Hibernian Hotel Drinks Mat
IE LMOD 345 · Item · Twentieth Century

White with black and red writing circular drinks mat with a picture of the hotel and caption 'The Royal Hibernian Hotel Dawson Street 2. Telephone: 772991 Telex 25220'

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1970s Think Big
IE LMOD 635 · Item · Twentieth Century

White and off white background with black writing saying Think Big with the letters of big made up of naked people.

This painting lived above Charlie Haughey’s desk in Kinsealy for nearly 40 years. Whatever you think about Haughey, it is indisputable that he followed the advice contained therein.

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1971 St. Stephen's Green by Bill Doyle
IE LMOD 297 · Item · Twentieth Century

A print of a black and white photo showing people queueing, including some nuns, to see ‘Love Story’ at the Green Cinema on St. Stephen’s Green taken by Bill Doyle.
A queue for Love Story at the St Stephen’s Green Picture House (known as the Green) in 1971. Many nuns were not allowed to go to the theatre, but because films were censored, they were allowed to go to the cinema. The Green opened in 1935, one of the first to deviate from the lavish style of early cinemas, offering a more relaxed experience with less overbearing décor. The cinema survived until 1987.

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1971 The Contraceptive Train by Eddie Kelly
IE LMOD 760 · Item · Twentieth Century

A black and white photo taken by Eddie Kelly showing a group of women with an Irish Womens Liberation Movement banner at Connolly Station taking part in the contraceptive train to get contraception from Northern Ireland.

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1972 Muhammad Ali by Don Morley
IE LMOD 717 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of Muhammad Ali in his boxing gear and standing in a fighting stance outdoors with fields behind him. From Getty 'Muhammad Ali during training on 10 July 1972 for his fight with Al 'Blue' Lewis held at Croke Park in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.'

Muhammad Ali fought Al Lewis in Croke Park in July 1972. The promoter Harry Conrad had always wanted to stage a heavyweight fight, and managed to convince Ali to fight Lewis in Dublin for $200,000. He is shown here training for the fight. Ticket sales were slow, but about 5,000 people managed to sneak in without paying. The fight itself was not very exciting – Lewis barely troubled Ali – but people were still thrilled to see Ali fight. Fans swamped the field around the ring and it took almost half an hour to clear a path back to the dressing rooms.

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1972 Sunday Independent
1972 Sunday Independent
IE LMOD 389 · Item · Twentieth Century

Pages 11 and 12 from the Sunday Independent, 9 July 1972.

The Irish Independent was launched in 1905, successor to the Daily Irish Independent. The paper was owned by William Martin Murphy, and stayed in his family until it was purchased by Tony O’Reilly in a protracted coup between February 1972 and March 1973. This issue from July 1972 features a short, sycophantic profile of the new boss – no more, really, than a snapshot of his rapid rise. O’Reilly made his first million that year, and the Independent would soon become the cornerstone of his media empire.

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1972 Thin Lizzy 'Shades of A Blue Orphanage' Vinyl
IE LMOD 554 · Item · Twentieth Century

A vinyl LP of Thin Lizzy's 'Shades of A Blue Orphanage'. Blue cover with black and white pictures, the front of three children and the back shows the three bandmembers walking through St. Stephen's Green, dated 10 January 1962.

Shades of a Blue Orphanage is Thin Lizzy’s second album, released in 1972. The name is a composite of the members’ previous bands, Shades of Blue and Orphanage. The band is pictured walking beside the pond in St. Stephen’s Green on the back cover.

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