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The Beano from August 1984 including colour and black and white strips such as ‘Dennis the Menance and Gnasher’, ‘Roger the Dodger’, ‘Minnie the Minx’, ‘Ball Boy’, ‘The Bash Street Kids’ and ‘Billy Whizz’.

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.

Black and white photograph of Samuel Beckett taken by John Minihan in Paris in 1985 with the written caption ‘Samuel Beckett photographed near his home on Boulevard St Jacques, Paris, 1985.’
Samuel Beckett grew up in Foxrock, but spent most of his life in Paris, where he is here captured near his home on the Boulevard St. Jacques. Beckett is most famous for his minimalist plays, often laced with dark humour, like Waiting for Godot and Endgame. The man who took this photograph, John Minihan, is an engaging figure who recalls his youth with a puckish twinkle.

A colour poster from the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS 59 August 1986 with a list of what events that are happening each day under a drawing of a man riding a horse.

'U2 Rock's Hottest Ticket' cover page of Time Magazine 27 April 1987, No. 17 with a photo of U2 on the front.