Handwritten letter from John Banville to the Little Museum of Dublin Director, Trevor White. 'Perhaps I shall will my brain to the museum so that after ages can wonder at its smallness.' The letter is dated 8.vi.2011. Envelope stamped 7/6/11
Sans titreThe registration plate for the Lord Mayor, Carmencita Hederman's car from 1988 with the special registration number 88-D-1000
This is the number plate from the Lord Mayor Carmencita Hederman’s car in 1988. The Lord Mayor’s car registration is normally D-1, but was changed to D-1000 specially for the Millenium year.
Red writing on white background poster for a charity collection. ‘On behalf of the deserving poor of Dublin’ ‘Support Dublin’s Oldest Charity’
Dublin’s oldest charity was founded in 1790 as The Charitable Society for the Relief of Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers of all Religious Persuasions in the City of Dublin. The founders were a group of concerned middle-class men – including a grocer, a schoolmaster and a linen-draper – who wanted to alleviate the poverty in Georgian Dublin long before any government social welfare schemes.
fiction, historic Dublin, 1900s, short story collection, Irish writers, paperback
Sans titrefiction, nonfiction, contemporary Ireland, 2000s, humour, politics, entertainment, paperback
Sans titrenonfiction, historic Ireland, 1900s, politics, Fianna Fáil, paperback
Sans titrenonfiction, historic Ireland, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, biography, culture, politics, hardback
Sans titreBlue, red and white Sunbeam poster. ‘Sunbeam The Marvellous Cleanser and Polisher for Household, Hotel and Factory. Excels all other scouring and cleansing powders and is The Pinnacle of Excellence. Packed in containers selling at 6d and 3d each. Manufactures by The Industrial Minerals of Ireland, Ltd. Dublin.’
Sans titreColour tourist map of Dublin City centre ‘A Plan of Dublin City showing many notable buildings and other particulars of general and historical interest’ with illustrations.
Sans titreBlue and white Dublin 8 street sign ‘Hoey’s Court’ ‘Cúirt Eochaí’
Hoey’s Court would mean nothing to the world, or indeed to Dubliners, except that Jonathan Swift was born here in 1667.
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