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1998 Pride, Gay Switchboard Float
IE LMOD 624 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of three men dressed as switchboard operators on a float.

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1998 Tour de France Telecom Éireann Call Card
IE LMOD 565 · Item · Twentieth Century

Colour photo of Tour de France cyclists and two small maps of the route in Ireland. 'Le Tour de France en Irlande. 11/12/13 July 1998' 10 units

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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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1999 Millennium Candle
IE LMOD 748 · Item · Twentieth Century

A millennium candle in its original box. The outside is a green cylinder with swirls and a stylised 2000 logo in gold writing. The candle itself is white with the same stylised 2000 in gold around the top and bottom. Wrapped around the candle is a piece of paper with the picture of a candle and the quote
'When Time began to rant and rage
The measure of her flying feet
Made Ireland's heart begin to beat;
And Time bade all his candles flare
To light a measure here and there;
W. B. Yeats, 'To Ireland in the Coming Times''

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1999 Nouveau First Issue
IE LMOD 702 · Item · Twentieth Century

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.

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