Dundalk

2000 onwards

My Kind of Town Exhibition

My Kind of Town Short promo video for the My Kind of Town exhibition My Kind of Town is my new exhibition that celebrates life in an industrial border town […]

1967

8 Adverts for Clarks Shoes, Ireland from 1960s & 70s

All these adverts are for Clarks shoes which were made […]

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 […]

1971

PJ Carroll – Office & Factory, Dundalk 1971

From my home town Dundalk, this is PJ Carrolls cigarette […]

2000 onwards

Choice with Jinx Lennon – Thurs 8th November, 2012, Dundalk.

Yes, 2012. Next week. Choice back performing as special guests […]

1979

Dundalk V Spurs 21st Oct 1981 and Focus on Ossie Ardiles 1979

On 21st October, 1981, Dundalk drew 1-1 with Spurs in […]

1968

Old Adverts #87 – Clarks Shoes 1968/69

Check the all important small print. Made in the Republic of Ireland by Clarks of Dundalk Dundalk always had a tradition of shoe making and at its peak (late 60s/70s) […]

1980

Old Adverts #79 – Carrolls Number 1 Cigarettes- 1980

1979

Shoot Magazine 1979 – Dundalk FC – Double Winners 1979

1979 League of Ireland and FAI Cup winners Dundalk get […]

1979

Static Routines – Rock ‘n’ Roll Clones – 7″ Single – 1979

From Blackrock, Dundalk, Static Routines released their 7″ single “Rock […]

1967

Old Adverts #19 – Blackthorn Boots, 1967

Made in Dundalk, these are Blackthorn boots. This advert is […]

1979

1970s Collage – Too Late Fanzine – 1979

This is a scan of a page from an issue […]

1980

Choice – Irish Post Punk / Electronic pop from Dundalk 1980-82

Choice began as a four piece with myself (bass), Ciaran […]

2000 onwards

Awkward and Real – The Magnificent Jinx Lennon

This is the first post in BrandNewRetro that is not […]

1988

1st May 1988 – Dundalk win FAI Cup and Double.

I’ve seen Dundalk win 5 FAI Cup Finals. My […]

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 […]

1984

1984- More from Jump Fanzine

Two more page scans from Jump Fanzine 1984. 1. Review list of 1984 – Forget George Orwell, this was the year Woolworths & the Magnet cinema closed in Dundalk! This […]

1980

Dexys, Liverpool FC & Keith Allen all in 1 night

Wednesday 30th July, 1980, a busy night in Dundalk. Dexys […]

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 […]

1986

Bertie 1986 – Caption Competition

This is from the Dundalk Argus circa 1986 . Use the ‘leave a comment’ option below to submit your amusing caption or comment. Its funny as it is though, isn’t […]

1979

Down the Train Station at Midday – From Too Late Fanzine #1 1978

The first issue of Dundalk fanzine Too Late issued in […]

1984

Jump Fanzine 1984 Issue 1, 1984

Jump was the successor to Too Late Fanzine. This, one and only, issue came out in Nov 1984. Like Too Late it had no adverts at all and was sold […]

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 […]