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Small silver spoon with the 1988 Dublin Millenium logo in box
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Commemorative stamp booklet issued by An Post as part of the Dublin 1988 Millennium
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Commemorative navy and blue wrist watch from the 1988 Dublin Millenium
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Commemorative navy and blue wristwatch from the Dublin Millennium 1988 with instructions
LMODA Harp Lager commemorative toy rugby ball for the Rugby World Cup 1988 Ireland V. Scotland 16 January signed by Hugo MacNeill and some other members of the team. It also has the flags of the teams taking part in the World Cup.
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The Dublin City Seal from the thirteenth century, the earliest item in the City Regalia, gifted in a special presentation book to Ollie Campbell by the Lord Mayor Ben Briscoe. ‘The city is portrayed at peace by a ship at sail in a sea of plenty; on the obverse the city gates are shown under siege with two sentries sounding the alarm, while two archers take aim with their crossbows. On the city walls to heralds also sound the alarm, and on the gates in the foreground are impaled the heads of three offenders as a dire warning’ ‘Stamped around the rim on both sides are the words “Sigillum Commune Dublinie” or “The Common Seal of the City of Dublin”’ The presentation box itself is signed by Ben Briscoe and has a picture of the Mansion House on the cover.
LMODThe registration plate for the Lord Mayor, Carmencita Hederman's car from 1988 with the special registration number 88-D-1000
This is the number plate from the Lord Mayor Carmencita Hederman’s car in 1988. The Lord Mayor’s car registration is normally D-1, but was changed to D-1000 specially for the Millenium year.
Signed print of the poem Valedictory Verse by Seamus Heaney ‘composed for the Carysfort Graduation Exercises, 1988’ with an illustration of Carysfort College, Blackrock, Co. Dublin in the top right corner. Dated June 2011.
Séamus Heaney wrote this poem to mark “a significant moment in the history of Dublin” – the closure of Carysfort College in Blackrock. The Nobel-prize winning poet taught at the teacher-training college between 1975 and 1981, before he took up a position at Harvard. Carysfort was founded in 1877 as a college for Catholic girls who wished to become teachers. Other lecturers at the college included Éamon de Valera and Eoin MacNeill, co-founder of the Gaelic League and founder of the Irish Volunteers. The poem was written, as Heaney notes, “to mark the end of an era.”
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4 identical 50 p stamps showing a colour drawing of St. Stephen’s Green.
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A colour poster for the Kerrygold Dublin Horse Show in the RDS 8-12 August 1989 with green writing a collection of photographs of the Horse Show.
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