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Sepia toned photograph of Olympia A.F.C. with the caption 'Winners: Leinster Senior Cup, Leinster Junior Cup, and Chichester Memorial Shield.' with the names of the people in the photograph below.

A black and white photographic portrait of Colm Tóibin in a room full of books with pages scattered on the ground taken by Perry Ogden.
Colm Tóibín stands in his office near Fitzwilliam Square. One of Ireland’s more astute commentators – and surely Dublin’s greatest networker – he was born in Wexford but has spent much of his life in the capital. Tóibín published his first novel, The South, in 1990, partly based on his experience of living in Barcelona. His other works include The Blackwater Lightship (1999) and a wonderful collection of short stories called The Empty Family (2010).

The 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.

A black and white photograph of Dublin housing estate with a few pedestrians visible and a cart in the foreground.

A black and white photograph of American President Kennedy smiling with the Mace Bearer and Lord Mayor. From Getty 'US President John F Kennedy with Dublin’s macebearer Jim Buckley (on the left) during a visit to Dublin on 29 June 1963.'

A second edition, first English edition, of Ulysses by James Joyce.

The history of Ulysses in print is almost as labyrinthine as the story itself. The Egoist Press edition of Joyce’s great masterpiece has been called the second printing of the first edition, which was published by Shakespeare and Company earlier in the same year. This is the first English edition. When the Shakespeare and Co. first edition sold out within a few months, the Egoist Press purchased the original printing plates from Sylvia Beach, the initial publisher. Printed in Dijon by the printers who had created the plates, the title page makes the following curious claim: ‘Published by the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris.’ A private edition – like the Shakespeare and Co. edition – it was limited to 2,000 copies on handmade paper. Some 500 of those copies were confiscated by New York Postal authorities on the grounds of obscenity. This volume is number 1936.

A largely black and white poster for the Dublin Theatre festival with 'theatre festival' in red. The festival is dated on the poster as '10/24 September 1961'. Poster designed by Louis le Broquy.

The Dublin Theatre Festival is Europe’s oldest theatre festival, held annually since 1957. It brings major productions to Ireland, and provides a platform for local and more experimental work. This poster for the 1961 festival was designed by Louis le Brocquy.

A colour poster for the Aer Lingus service from London to Dublin showing a Rolls Royce on the runway beside a plane wing with an Aer Lingus plane visible in the background. Poster is captioned in purple writing 'London - Dublin from £13.18. tourist return' at the top and at the bottom 'fly by Aer Lingus Irish Air Lines, Viscount, Rolls-Royce propeller turbines'.

Strange as it now seems, air travel was once perceived as a glamorous activity. This elegant poster advertises the Aer Lingus service between London and Dublin.