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1918 Lemonade Bottle
1918 Lemonade Bottle
IE LMOD 267 · Item · Twentieth Century

Cantrell and Cochrane earthenware lemonade bottle containing lemonade, also stamped Price Bristol.
This unopened bottle of lemonade was found by David Casserly in the wreck of the RMS Leinster, in 1991/92, which was sunk by a German submarine in October 1918, two months before the end of the First World War. The greatest disaster in Irish maritime history, the loss of the mail boat off the coast of Dún Laoghaire took the lives of 501 people, including about 300 soliders and nurses returning to the front. The bottle was manufactured by Cantrell and Cochrane, better known as C&C. It was made in Bristol, by the Price stoneware company.

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1920s Dublin Pin Tray
1920s Dublin Pin Tray
IE LMOD 399 · Item · Twentieth Century

Light blue with floral design strip pin tray that has the Dublin Crest in the centre with the motto ‘Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas’

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1940s Alex Findlater and Co Tea Chest
1940s Alex Findlater and Co Tea Chest
IE LMOD 265 · Item · Twentieth Century

Contains tea. Alex Findlater & Co Ltd. Tea Blenders Dublin, Blend of specially selected Indian tea

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1950s Hatch and Sons Milk Bottle
1950s Hatch and Sons Milk Bottle
IE LMOD 357 · Item · Twentieth Century

Empty milk bottle 'Hatch and Sons, Dairy Farmers, 6 Lesson St, St Stephen's Green, Dublin'

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1950s Merville Dairy Finglas Milk Bottle
1950s Merville Dairy Finglas Milk Bottle
IE LMOD 358 · Item · Twentieth Century

Empty Milk Bottle with raised writing 'Merville Dairy, Finglas' on one side and on the other 'Unauthorised persons using this bottle will be prosecuted'.

The Merville Dairy collected milk in bulk from farmers, processed it and delivered it. Originally milk was delivered ‘loose’, poured into customers’ containers from vats on the truck, but this was phased out in favour of bottles by the 1930s. Eventually Merville was amalgamated into Premier Dairies, and the horse-drawn floats were phased out.

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1970s Abbeville Honey Jar
IE LMOD 636 · Item · Twentieth Century

A small, round, off white, speckled clay honey pot with Abbeville Honey written on the front.

This jar reveals a largely undocumented passion of Charles J. Haughey. Throughout his life he was an avid beekeeper. Haughey collected honey from bees in Abbeville, his Georgian mansion in Kinsealy, and gave it to family and friends in jars such as this one – presented by his son, Seán, to the museum.

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1978 Guinness Poster
IE LMOD 673 · Item · Twentieth Century

A colour poster for Guinness with the caption 'Black is beautiful' with a spread of pints of Guinness underneath.

This Black is Beautiful advert is one of the classic Guinness posters. Also a press advert, but known mostly as a poster, it would have featured as a full 48 sheet billboard. The glasses featured in the advert are known as Waterford tankards – the prototypes were produced by Waterford Glass, and then mass produced. They were used as the glass for draught Guinness from c. 1964 to 1982 – the first time that Guinness had designed a glass for its beer. The Waterford Tankard was replaced by a straight sided pint glass.

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1980s Tayto Crisps packet, framed
1980s Tayto Crisps packet, framed
IE LMOD 2400 · Item · Twentieth Century

1980s 'Golden Tayto Crisps' Cheese and Onion flavour, in a wooden double sided box frame

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1987 White’s on the Green Matchbox
1987 White’s on the Green Matchbox
IE LMOD 365 · Item · Twentieth Century

Green match box with white writing 'Whites on the Green Restaurant'. Includes matches with white heads.

White’s on the Green was a French restaurant owned by Peter White and his wife Alicia. Head chef Michael Clifford admired nouvelle cuisine, and fans of his cooking included Charles Haughey and Karl Lagerfeld. While only open for four years during a bleak period in Dublin’s culinary history, the restaurant had an influence.

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