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1990s Bertie Ahern by Graham Knuttel
1990s Bertie Ahern by Graham Knuttel
IE LMOD 474 · Item · Twentieth Century

Print of Bertie Ahern standing beside newspaper board with headline 'The Most Cunning of Them All' Headline is also on a Northside People newspaper by Graham Knuttel

Graham Knuttel painted gently satirical pictures of all the Taoisigh. This painting references Ahern’s reputation as a man of the people – his famous anorak, that pub in Drumcondra opposite his constituency office. Charlie Haughey’s much quoted description – “The Most Cunning of Them All” – refers to the other side of Ahern’s reputation.

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1990s Collection of call cards
1990s Collection of call cards
IE LMOD 420 · Item · Twentieth Century

Collection of 6 Telecom Éireann Call Cards from the 1990s
1: Commemorative Dublin Cultural Capital of Europe 1991 showing drawings of four Irish writers Oscar Wilde, Seán O’Casey, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw. 50 units.
2: Photo of the Long Room in Trinity College Dublin commemorating Trinity’s 400 year anniversary. 50 units.
3: Photo of the Irish football team for the USA World Cup ’94. The back of the card also gives the details of each Ireland match in the first group stage. 10 units.
4: Picture of the roof of the Capitol Building backed by the American flag. ‘Celebrating President Clinton’s historic visit to Ireland, 1995’ 50 units.
5: Photo of a younger hand passing a cup and saucer of tea to older hands. ‘Reach out, Be a good neighbour, Be aware! Care!’ On the back in green writing is also ‘Reach out Your elderly or vulnerable neighbour living alone may need your help! Keep in touch’. 20 units.
6: Photo of Boyzone for Boyzone magazine. 10 units.

Between the era of the payphone and the mobile phone, there was a brief interlude in which the “cardphone” prospered. Telephone companies were keen to promote the cards - because customers paid up front, and often didn’t use their full allocation of credit. (Although an urban myth about recharging the cards by leaving them in your freezer was widely circulated). Small, iconic and fairly durable, these callcards quickly became a collector’s item among schoolboys, philatelists and miscellaneous geeks - traded at market stalls. Phone companies quickly realised they could capitalise on this by selling advertising space on the cards, creating even more collectables in the process. Most payphones in the city were converted to accept callcards. However, the rising ubiquity of mobile/cell phones soon ended the market for callcards.

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1991 Jonathan Philbin Bowman by Conor Horgan,
IE LMOD 776 · Item · Twentieth Century

There is a messer in every Dublin classroom. Jonathan Philbin Bowman was a freelance messer, at large in the city at a time – the late
1980s – when most of his peers were at school or college. The son of broadcaster John Bowman and his wife Dr Eimer Philbin Bowman, Jonathan had little time for conventional education, and was almost comically precocious. A fine mimic and boisterous conversationalist, he parlayed avocation as a journalist into an unlikely role at the centre of Dublin society. In the Coffee Inn, a famous dive-café on South Anne Street, the house speciality was the Bowman Burger (20p): one microwaved bowl of hot air. Their best customer was, of course, JPB. A great Dubliner, he died in 2000 at the age of 31.

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