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1983 Under a Blood Red Sky
IE LMOD 483 · Item · Twentieth Century

A vinyl LP of U2's 'Under A Blood Red Sky' in cover. The cover is autographed by all four members.

Under a Blood Red Sky is a live album, recorded during U2’s tour in support of War, their third album. It was U2’s first headline tour of Europe and the US, and the band moved from small clubs to larger venues, even some arenas towards the end of the tour. Released along with the concert film Live at Red Rocks, the album bolstered U2’s reputation as a cracking live band. This copy is signed by the band.

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1988 Valedictory Verses by Séamus Heaney
1988 Valedictory Verses by Séamus Heaney
IE LMOD 435 · Item · Twentieth Century

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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1989 My Left Foot Movie Poster
IE LMOD 701 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour movie poster for My Left Foot, with a hand drawn picture of the various characters on the left and quotes of praise for the film and actor and production information on the right.

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1993 Tom McGinty as the Not So Laughing Cavalier, Dame Street
IE LMOD 625 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of Tom McGinty dressed as a cavalier in a frame with the caption 'the not so laughing cavalier' and with bare legs below the frame.

Thom McGinty, better known as the Diceman, was a street performer in the 1980s and early 1990s. He came to Ireland in 1976 to work as a model. The name Diceman came from a shop that sold role-playing games. In the 1980s and early 1990s, McGinty became well-known for performances on Grafton Street where he would sometimes work as a mime artist or would otherwise perform in costume, advertising the shop. He is pictured here as the Not So Laughing Cavalier. McGinty was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and died in 1995.

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1995 Opening Night of Riverdance
IE LMOD 555 · Item · Twentieth Century

Black and White photograph of Michael Flatley, Jean Butler and Maria Pages on the opening night of Riverdance at the Point Theatre, 9 February 1995

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1995 Sinéad O'Connor by Bill Doyle
1995 Sinéad O'Connor by Bill Doyle
IE LMOD 307 · Item · Twentieth Century

A print of a black and white photograph of Sinéad O’Connor taken in 1995 with two Lock Hards by Bill Doyle.
Lock-hards were a fixture of Dublin life for decades. They would shout unsolicited parking advice, hoping for a fee. Peaked caps lent them a spurious air of authority. Sinéad O’Connor is an Irish singer who won fame with her cover of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2U’. She has often been a figure of controversy, expressing strong views on organised religion and women’s rights, most famously tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on US television. A Dubliner is someone who loves to remind you that Sinead O’Connor once worked as a waitress in the Bad Ass Café.

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1997 Il Florilegio Circus Poster
1997 Il Florilegio Circus Poster
IE LMOD 2291 · Item · Twentieth Century

Framed green poster promoting Il Florilegio Circus' show in Dublin Booterstown (in front of Black Rock College)

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1999 Gay Byrne's Freedom of the City
1999 Gay Byrne's Freedom of the City
IE LMOD 333 · Item · Twentieth Century

Gay Byrne's Honorary Freedom of the City of Dublin awarded on 11 May 1999. It has a picture of the Late Late Show owl on the bottom.

Gay Byrne hosted RTÉ’s flagship talk show, the Late Late Show, for 37 years from its first broadcast in 1962. Byrne was a major catalyst in the transformation of Irish society, riffing on abortion, contraception and homosexuality. The Late Late Show featured an owl on its opening credits, hence the owl’s appearance on Byrne’s freedom of the city award. Byrne retired in 1999, but still pops up on Irish television.

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2000 Paul McGuinness's Freedom of the City of Dublin
2000 Paul McGuinness's Freedom of the City of Dublin
IE LMOD 506 · Item · Twentieth Century

Copy of Paul McGuinness's Honorary Freedom of the City of Dublin, awarded on the 18 March 2000. Has a drawing of a Joshua Tree at the bottom. Signed by Lord Mayor Mary Freehill and City Manager John Fitzgerald.

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