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1960s Money Counter
1960s Money Counter
IE LMOD 463 · Item · Twentieth Century

Silver Munster and Leinster Bank Money Counter counter with slots for each type of pre-decimalisation coin. The top has the bank’s name and crest in black and gold.

This money counter was for use with pre- decimalisation coins. Th e Munster and Leinster Bank was founded in 1885.

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1950s Menu from Russell Hotel
IE LMOD 467 · Item · Twentieth Century

Front and back of a menu from the Hotel Russell’s restaurant from a dinner given by the then Chairman of the ESB, R. F. Browne. Has the signatures of Sean Lemass, Henry Kennedy, T MacMahon, Arthur Cox, Dr Tom Murphy, Erskine Childers John H. Ryan, Brendan O’Cearbhaill, J. P. Digby, R. F. Browne. Has a picture of a fish in a chef’s hat playing the harp to lobsters.

This menu from the Russell Hotel, on the south side of St Stephen’s Green, suggests that politics and business have long been intimate. It was produced for a dinner hosted by R. F. Browne, Chairman of the ESB. The menu reads like a who’s who, with a line-up that includes Erskine Childers (President from 1973 until his death in 1974), Seán Lemass (Taoiseach from 1959-1966), Jack Lynch (Taoiseach in the 1960s and 1970s), Arthur Cox (Legal advisor to the ESB), Dr. Tom Murray (Secretary of the Department of Finance and future chair of the ESB), Henry Kennedy (a Director of the ESB, Bank of Ireland and many other companies), J. P. Digby (Chairman and founder of Pye Ireland and a Director of the ESB), John H. Ryan (a Director of Bank of Ireland), T. MacMahon (Director of the ESB) and Brendan O’Cearbhaill (Director of the ESB). Blue Nun wine was served at the meal.

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1980s McGonagle’s sign
1980s McGonagle’s sign
IE LMOD 471 · Item · Twentieth Century

Yellow Mc Gonagles sign with each individual letter.

McGonagle’s was a bar and live-music venue on South Anne Street in the 1970s. Many great bands played there, from U2 and the Stone Roses in their early days to acts like Death (the band after which Death Metal is named) and Sonic Youth. McGonagle’s has since been demolished to make way for a Hackett shop.

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1941 Clery's Box
1941 Clery's Box
IE LMOD 472 · Item · Twentieth Century

Cardboard box from Clery's with a picture of the store and the captions 'Ireland's Greatest Department Store' 'Tailoring Department' 'Clery and Co.(1941) Ltd. Dublin'

A box from Clery’s tailoring department in 1941. Clery’s was founded as ‘The New or Palatial Mart’ in 1853, bought over and renamed by M. J. Clery in 1883. The current building – which is modelled on Selfridge’s of London – dates from 1922, the original having been destroyed during the Easter Rising. In 1943, this much-loved department store was taken over by the Guiney family, who also owned the nearby Guiney’s department store.

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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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John Bruton by Graham Knuttel
John Bruton by Graham Knuttel
IE LMOD 478 · Item · Twentieth Century

Print of John Bruton in a shoe shop holding out a hand to child trying on shoes with their mother with 'Back to School' and 'Sale' by Graham Knuttel.

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1957 Telephone
IE LMOD 512 · Item · Twentieth Century

Black rotary telephone.

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1960s The Great Marvello
IE LMOD 513 · Item · Twentieth Century

Brightly coloured general knowledge board game 'The Great Marvello' with a black and white picture of Éamon Andrews. Contains 4 reversible quiz sheets and a plastic Marvello figure.

In this ‘magic robot’ game, a figurine tries to rotate to the correct answer. (Magnets, dear boy.) The game’s impresario, Eamonn Andrews, went to school in Synge Street CBS, just south of here. Andrews is best remembered as presenter of This Is Your Life, which he fronted for nearly 30 years until his death in 1987.

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1976 Carroll's Irish Open Lanyard
IE LMOD 522 · Item · Twentieth Century

A circular red laynard with gold writing for a member's guest to the Carrolls Irish Open in Portmarnock 1976. It has the bumber 088 stamped on the back. It has a red string tied to the top.

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