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1979 P and T Mailbag
IE LMOD 688 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

A canvas mailbag made in Mountjoy Prison in 1979 with P and T stenciled on the side for use by Posts and Telegraphs.

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1916 Imperial Hotel Saucer
IE LMOD 689 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

A white saucer from the Imperial Hotel with the crest and edging in dark green.

The Imperial Hotel was destroyed by shells from the British gunboat Helga during the 1916 Rising. The hotel was built in 1837, and the site is now occupied by part of the Clery’s Department Store building. Jim Larkin was arrested in 1913 after sneaking into the Imperial Hotel in disguise to give a banned speech to workers gathered on O’Connell Street below – a coup against the authorities, and also against William Martin Murphy, leader of the Dublin employers, and one of the hotel’s owners.

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1988 Fake Banknote Postcard
IE LMOD 690 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

2 navy blue and white SADD campaign postcards. The front has an old map of the city centre showing Batchelors Walk with the title 'S.A.V.V. Don't destroy the central river bank of Ireland' and the back has a prewritten letter for either Taoiseach Charles Haughey or Minister of the Environment Padraig Flynn asking them to protect the area.

In 1988, a group called Students Against the Destruction of Dublin produced these postcards for citizens to send the Taoiseach and Minister of the Environment to oppose the redevelopment of Bachelor’s Walk, which contains some of the most important early 18th Century houses in Dublin. At the time, buildings were being acquired by a development company, and the postcards urge the government to ensure that any development preserved the buildings.

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1952 Lucian and Brendan by Daniel Farson
1952 Lucian and Brendan by Daniel Farson
IE LMOD 711 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

A black and white photograph of Lucian Freud and Brendan Behan chatting outside the Mansion House. From Getty 'German born English artist Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011), the grandson of psychologist Sigmund Freud, cigarette in hand, converses with Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923 – 1964) in Dublin.'

The artist Lucian Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, chats with Brendan Behan outside the Mansion House. Freud was a frequent visitor to Dublin in the 1950s. Behan was a novelist, poet and playwright, as well as a former member of the IRA. This picture was taken two years before his first major success, The Quare Fellow.

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1955 Horse Drinking by Hulton Archive
1955 Horse Drinking by Hulton Archive
IE LMOD 712 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of a horse drinking from a trough in the street while parents a child in a buggy watch. From Getty 'A family is amused by a horse drinking from a trough in Dublin on 1 January 1955.'

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1964 Sean O’Casey’s Room at 42 Mt Joy Square by Gjon Mili
IE LMOD 714 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of Sean O'Casey's room showing a number of books and religious pictures and icons. From Getty 'Sean O'Casey’s Room at 42 Mount Joy Square where O'Casey lived and which was also the setting for his play ‘Shadow of a Gunman’.'

Sean O’Casey lived in this tenement flat at 42 Mountjoy Square. It was the setting for his play, Shadow of a Gunman. O’Casey never forgave the Abbey Theatre for rejecting his fourth play, The Silver Tassie, and left Dublin for good in the late 1920s. He died in Torquay in 1964.

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1968 Action McBride by Hulton Archive
IE LMOD 715 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

A colour photograph of Willie McBride trying to catch a ball during a rugby match. McBride and the Irish squad are in green jerseys while the other team are in red jerseys. From Getty 'Ireland v Wales at Landsdowne Road. Willie John McBride palms the ball in a line out during the game.'

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1980s Camden Street by Tony O’Shea
IE LMOD 718 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

A black and white photo taken on Camden Street by Tony O'Shea showing a dog on a man's lap riding a motorbike, creating the illusion that the dog is riding the bike, in front of a 16A bus.

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1987 Denis Hickie School Report
IE LMOD 719 · Unidad documental simple · Twentieth Century

Two school reports for Denis Hickie from St. Mary's College, Rathmines. The opened 1987 report has the observation 'Dennis has made good progress this term, but he could do better if he could concentrate more and be less fidgety in class.'

Denis Hickie was one of the best wingers Ireland ever had. Born in 1976, he attended St Mary’s in Rathmines (where this report is from) before going on to college in UCD. Hickie was known as Disco Denis on the pitch – a tribute to his dancing feet – and represented Ireland on 51 occasions.

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