Brand New Retro: Dalymount Park
Years before Croke Park, Marlay Park or the Phoenix Park, Dalymount was the only venue hosting major concerts.
Brand New Retro: Butlins Mosney
When the camp first opened, the Catholic Standard newspaper warned: “Holiday camps are an English idea and are alien and undesirable in an Irish Catholic country…”
Brand New Retro: Twilfit House
The building is a wonderful example of indigenous industrial architecture, but with plans approved to demolish it for a new 8-storey hotel, one fears 2018 may be the twilight year…
Brand New Retro: Eurovision, Dublin, 1971
Staging Ireland’s first ever Eurovision was a massive undertaking for RTE. But it was a success and proved we could put on a show as tacky, glitzy and expensive as…
Brand New Retro: The Irish Export Fashion Fair
April 1964 and the Irish Export Fashion Fair surpasses all expectations.
Brand New Retro: Miss Magazine
Miss magazine was a bright and bubbly monthly aimed at Irish teenagers and young women which was published by the Creation Group in 1965 and 1966.
Brian McMahon: Brand New Retro
Late last year, Liberties Press published Brand New Retro: Vintage Irish Pop Culture and Lifestyle in a tasty coffee-table format that allows you to flick through the history of Irish…