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Framed green poster promoting Il Florilegio Circus' show in Dublin Booterstown (in front of Black Rock College)
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A print of a black and white photograph of Sinéad O’Connor taken in 1995 with two Lock Hards by Bill Doyle.
Lock-hards were a fixture of Dublin life for decades. They would shout unsolicited parking advice, hoping for a fee. Peaked caps lent them a spurious air of authority. Sinéad O’Connor is an Irish singer who won fame with her cover of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2U’. She has often been a figure of controversy, expressing strong views on organised religion and women’s rights, most famously tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on US television. A Dubliner is someone who loves to remind you that Sinead O’Connor once worked as a waitress in the Bad Ass Café.
Black and White photograph of Michael Flatley, Jean Butler and Maria Pages on the opening night of Riverdance at the Point Theatre, 9 February 1995
LMODA colour photograph of Tom McGinty dressed as a cavalier in a frame with the caption 'the not so laughing cavalier' and with bare legs below the frame.
Thom McGinty, better known as the Diceman, was a street performer in the 1980s and early 1990s. He came to Ireland in 1976 to work as a model. The name Diceman came from a shop that sold role-playing games. In the 1980s and early 1990s, McGinty became well-known for performances on Grafton Street where he would sometimes work as a mime artist or would otherwise perform in costume, advertising the shop. He is pictured here as the Not So Laughing Cavalier. McGinty was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and died in 1995.
LMODA colour movie poster for My Left Foot, with a hand drawn picture of the various characters on the left and quotes of praise for the film and actor and production information on the right.
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Signed print of the poem Valedictory Verse by Seamus Heaney ‘composed for the Carysfort Graduation Exercises, 1988’ with an illustration of Carysfort College, Blackrock, Co. Dublin in the top right corner. Dated June 2011.
Séamus Heaney wrote this poem to mark “a significant moment in the history of Dublin” – the closure of Carysfort College in Blackrock. The Nobel-prize winning poet taught at the teacher-training college between 1975 and 1981, before he took up a position at Harvard. Carysfort was founded in 1877 as a college for Catholic girls who wished to become teachers. Other lecturers at the college included Éamon de Valera and Eoin MacNeill, co-founder of the Gaelic League and founder of the Irish Volunteers. The poem was written, as Heaney notes, “to mark the end of an era.”
LMODA vinyl LP of U2's 'Under A Blood Red Sky' in cover. The cover is autographed by all four members.
Under a Blood Red Sky is a live album, recorded during U2’s tour in support of War, their third album. It was U2’s first headline tour of Europe and the US, and the band moved from small clubs to larger venues, even some arenas towards the end of the tour. Released along with the concert film Live at Red Rocks, the album bolstered U2’s reputation as a cracking live band. This copy is signed by the band.
LMODA brightly coloured poster for the Phoenix Park Festival showing a plane flying in front of a red sun with a banner coming out the back saying 'U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country, Steel Pulse, Perfect Crime' The concert is dated Sunday 14th August 1983 with tickets costing £10.50
LMODTyped letter June 1982 from Jim Aiken, Arnie Pustilnik and Andre Wilkinson in regards to the Rolling Stones playing Slane.
One of Jim Aiken’s first major coups was in persuading the Rolling Stones to play at Slane Castle in 1982. It was only the second time that Lord Henry Mountcharles had staged a large outdoor concert in his natural amphitheatre (Thin Lizzy had played there the previous year, supported by U2). These telex messages hashed out the agreement between the band and the Dublin-based concert promoter. The Rolling Stones would pay for the stage, lighting and support bands out of a $375,000 fee… plus a percentage of ticket sales.
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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