Tag Archives: Brand New Retro

Baggot Street Noir

Admin at 4:31 pm December 17, 2012

A rarely seen (by us) image of Patrick Kavanagh getting his Sam Spade on in – possibly – the stairwell of his top flat on Pembroke Road, Dublin.

He got it off Daft.

Taken for a photo essay entitled ‘A Day in Dublin, in Lilliput magazine by Bill Brandt, August 1947.

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No Sleep ’til Kingscourt

Admin at 11:34 am December 14, 2012

A flame-haired Big Tom with his Mainliners sending festive greetings/Xmas gig information in 1968.

Good times.

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That’s Pretty Talk

Admin at 4:33 pm December 12, 2012

“Brown patent shoes trimmed with braid.”

In Drogheda.

From ‘New Spotlight’, 1968.

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A Rare Man, 1978

Admin at 11:33 am December 5, 2012

Sunday World, October 8. 1978

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That’ll Learn Her

Admin at 10:53 am November 30, 2012

New Spotlight, 1969

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The Filth And The Fury

Admin at 4:41 pm November 12, 2012

Two years after the ‘Pistols.

But still.

The Sunday World, January 1978.

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He Lives With His Widowed Mother

Admin at 8:54 am November 5, 2012

New Spotlight, 1968

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Made In Finglas

Admin at 10:03 am October 17, 2012

The actually-fiendishly-difficult-to-use Merville milk cartons, 1961.

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“I’d Wear The Hipsters, Mind You.”

Admin at 12:24 pm October 8, 2012

Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly.

From new Spotlight, 1967.

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Skype, 1962

Admin at 11:16 am October 3, 2012

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