Brand New Retro: ENVIRO 70
Enviro 70, four years before the Guaranteed Irish campaign, three years before we joined the EEC and 39 years before IKEA arrived in Dublin.
Brand New Retro: Package Holidays (1966-1970)
JWT brought affordable holidays to the masses and was the first company to advertise package holidays on Irish TV. Almost 60 years later, it is still in the travel business…
Brand New Retro: Mr Pussy (Alan Amsby)
In 1969 English entertainer and female impersonator Alan Amsby, aka Mr Pussy, Ireland’s “leading misleading lady” came to Ireland for a week and stayed forever.
Brand New Retro: Vintage Christmas Adverts
This month we present a selection of vintage Christmas adverts promoting long-standing Irish food and drink brands.
Brand New Retro: The Stylistics, Dublin, 1975
On a cold Sunday afternoon in November 1975, over 10,000 people poured into the RDS show jumping arena to see The Stylistics perform at what was Ireland’s biggest ever pop…
Brand New Retro: Phibsborough Shopping Centre
Described in 1969 as a ‘trend setting development’, the Phibsborough Centre celebrates its 50th birthday this month.
BRAND NEW RETRO – Vernon Dewhurst
Vernon Dewhurst, the photographer responsible for David Bowie’s Space Oddity album cover spent a year working as an advertising and fashion photographer in Dublin. He shares his memory of his…
Brand New Retro: Graham Keogh’s Football Shirt Collection
Graham Keogh knows a lot about football shirts - he has hundreds. Not replicas, but actual shirts worn by players including the likes of Best, Cantona and Barnes.
Brand New Retro: Velure Productions 1993-2001
Inspired by running a late-night club during the Dublin Theatre Festival, Fergus Murphy and Paul Rooney launched Saturday Night at the Gaiety in November 1993.
Brand New Retro: Sharon Kane and the Sweet Jane Blog
Dubliner Sharon Kane is the creator of Sweet Jane, an outstanding pop culture website which specialises in digitising and republishing original print content from the 1960s and 1970s.
Brand New Retro: Heat Fanzine 1977-79
Heat championed young local bands and energised the exciting new wave music scene that exploded in Ireland in the late 1970s.
Brand New Retro: Problem Pages of the Past
The problem pages from Irish magazines of the 1960s and 1970s give an irresistible insight into the lives of Irish teenagers highlighting their innocence, loneliness, and ignorance in a changing…
Brand New Retro: The Specials & The Beat Stardust Ballroom Jan 1981
Despite the chaos, violence and poor organisation, the gig was memorable for many.
Brand New Retro: Ghosts of Christmas Past
"I still expect to find a magazine in my Christmas stocking". A look back at old Christmas covers from Irish magazines that are all long gone, dead and buried.
Brand New Retro: Garry O’Neill – Vox
Brian McMahon talks to Garry O'Neil about Vox, a 400+ page opus featuring the complete collection of the revered 1980s Dublin fanzine.
Brand New Retro: Tony Rodgers & The Witches Hut
Dublin had seen nothing like it before. Staff danced and sang to movie soundtracks, Hieronymus Bosch paintings hung on the wall, and when it got hot in the summer, the…
Brand New Retro: O’Connell Street Dublin 1988
The strip from O’Connell Bridge to the GPO is essentially the same as it was in 1988 but now comes with a flat white.