Sweet Afton cigarettes made in Dundalk by PJ Carroll and smoked by Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) in the movie The Royal Tenenbaums.
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Above Adverts (1956,57,64) scanned from GAA match programmes.
I remember my Grandad smoking those.Was that Robbie Burns on the front of the packet?
Yes. His sister had lived near Dundalk (Stephenstown) and she is buried in the graveyard of ‘The Green Church” opposite Carrolls factory. The name stems from a Burns’s poem “flow gently sweet Afton”