1978

1970

10 JWT Vintage Ads

Joe Walsh, a Co Down native, founded Joe Walsh Tours (JWT) in 1961 in a tiny Nassau Street office in Dublin. JWT started with religious pilgrimages to the likes of […]

1978

U2 win Limerick Civic Week Pop 1978 – Evening Press

Evening Press report on U2 or, as they are referred […]

1978

Dublin Discomania 1978 – Magill Magazine

This is a very welcome addition to our existing posts […]

1978

Advert for Energen Crisp Bread 1978

Advert for Energen Crisp Bread scanned by Brand New Retro from the centre pages of Woman’s Way, June 1978.

1978

Stiff Little Fingers – Gay Byrne Column, Sunday World, 1978

This is from Gay Byrne’s weekly Sunday World column dated August […]

1978

5 League of Ireland Winners – Shoot Magazine 70s & 80s

All above scanned by Brand New Retro from issues of […]

1978

Too Late Fanzine – Alcohol Guide – Feb, 1982.

The ‘Too Late’ guide to Alcohol is scanned from Dundalk […]

1978

Adverts for Young Scientist of the Year – 1978, 1979, 1987

1978

In Dublin, December 1978 with 25 ways to spend £1 on Christmas Gifts

All above scanned by Brand New Retro from In-Dublin #66 […]

1978

Focus On Eamonn Coughlan 1978

Scanned by Brand New Retro from Sean J Creedon’s Sports Page from In Dublin, December, 1978. The date of birth printed above is wrong, Eamonn was born on 21 November 1952. […]

1978

Bob Geldof + Paula Yates – Sunday World 1978

Bob Geldof on visit back to Dublin with Paula Yates in […]

1978

Galway Races – RTE Guide 1978

1978

Previous Post Update Alert (Strange Movements, 1978)

We’ve just added 6 new photos to our previous post […]

1978

Old Adverts #105 – Switzers, Dublin, Christmas 1978

From Sunday Press, December, 1978

1978

Grogans, Dublin 2 – Pub Spy, Sunday World, 1978

Sunday World, 8th October, 1978

1978

Old Adverts #99 – I Say NO!

From FAI Cup Final Programme, 1978

1978

Kate Bush & Sonny Knowles, Dublin Airport, 1978

From Sunday Independent, March, 1978

1978

Old Adverts #94 – Computer Professionals – Digital – 1978

From Sunday Press, December, 1978

1978

Old Adverts #92 – Vortex Thermal Sauna Suit – 1978

Scanned from Sunday World, September, 1978

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Old Adverts #91 – Silk Cut – 1978 – Dublin

1978

Focus on Frank Stapleton – Shoot 1978

Skank Mooks party with Virgin Prunes, Dublin, Nov 1978

On the back of this old photo it says, Reduce […]

1978

Dublin Fanzine – Heat issue 10 – 1978 – Hip to be Irish!

Above is a scan of the front and back cover […]

1978

Dublin’s Heat 11- 1978 with U2, Boy Scouts & more

More scans from the classy Dublin fanzine/magazine Heat, Vol 2, […]

1978

HEAT – Volume 2 – issues 6 to 11 1978

Here is the selection of Vol 2 Heats which we […]

1978

More NRG in Hot Press – 1978

Wasn’t Liam Mackey clever the way he crossed out Energy and replaced it with NRG? This Hot Press cutting is from Spring/Summer 1978. I can’t believe we only had 5 original […]

1978

The City of Rubber – 1978

I found an old Hot Press from Spring 1978 and it has a reference to NRG claiming we called Dundalk ‘the Irish city of Rubber’, a reference to Akron, Ohio (known as […]

1978

Confessions of a Teenybopper – from Too Late #1 1978

Another article from issue 1 of Too Late 1978 by Harry […]

1978

Too Late Fanzine 1978 – 1982

“Christmas 1978 and the first ever edition of Too Late hits the streets of Dundalk. A further four issues were produced during the following four years and sold around pubs […]

1978

NRG – Say it fast!!

Nowadays Lucozade style drinks & > 130bpm bad dance music all use the term NRG. Back in 1978 we had problems with this name. People would look at you with […]