June 2012 – Brand New Retro

1986

Self Aid Concert, RDS Dublin, May, 1986 – Record Mirror

Review of Self Aid concert May 17, 1986 scanned from […]

1980

Old Adverts #79 – Carrolls Number 1 Cigarettes- 1980

1980

Gay Dublin, 1980

All items above scanned from various issues of In Dublin dating from March to December 1980. The Lynn Geldof review of Flikkers in the Hirshfeld centre is from December 1980. […]

1996

David Holmes & too many DJs, Dublin – June 1996

From an article on David Holmes by Luke Clancy in […]

1966

Old Adverts #78 – Ulster Bank 1966

1962

Dancing on the Streets in Gorey – June 1962

From exactly 50 years ago and scanned from report on […]

1997

Cover Magazine UK – Issue 3 1997 – Sexy Irish Men

For all the writing that’s worth reading was the tag […]

1966

Young Dublin Fashion Designers 1966

Scanned from Miss Magazine, March 1966

1968

The Showboat, Malahide, Dublin 1968 with Albert Reynolds

The Showboat opened in the summer of 1968 but burned […]

2000 onwards

The Book of Poor Auld Fellas – 2007

At the bar, during the Spanish game last night, I overheard 2 Ould Fellas muttering about the younger people in the pub, supposedly watching the game yet constantly playing with […]

1971

Rory Gallagher – An Afternoon in Dublin 1971 + Q&A 1972

Rory Gallagher was only 47 when he died on 14th […]

1969

Publin 1969 – The International Bar

Photo & text above and the Bisquit advert scanned from a little tourist booklet called Publin ’69, ” a selective guide to the pubs of Dublin & district”

1969

Old Adverts #77 – Tylers Boots – 1969

1970

Goal Magazine – 1970 and Johhny Giles

Published in London, Goal Magazine, in the early 1970s was a regular read in our house. More sophisticated, detailed & expensive than Shoot it packed a lot into its 48 pages. Disappointingly, despite […]

1988

Euro 1988 – Evening Press Supplement

The week before the finals kicked off, almost all the Irish newspapers published Euro 88 supplements. “Free” supplements, now commonly available almost every day, were a very rare breed back […]

1966