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Museum of Childhood Ireland / Músaem Óige na hÉireann
  • Welcome
    • Our Board and Project Group.
  • DONATE
  • Get Involved
  • Why a Museum of Childhood?
  • Artist in Residence 2021, Fion Gunn
  • Event:Growing Up in Late 20th C Ireland
  • History Blog
  • History of Children and Childhood
    • History of Children and Childhood, 1500-1700
    • History of Children and Childhood, 1700-1800
  • Education Blog Reflections On . . .
    • Reflections On . . . Being a Leaving Cert Student in 2020
    • Reflections On . . . Formal Education as a Member of the Traveller Community
    • Reflections On . . . Anti-Bullying Strategies in Early Education
    • Reflections On . . . “Coming Out” (or “Bearing Witness”?) as a Teacher
  • Children’s Rights Blog
  • Children’s Rights
    • Children’s Day 2020
  • Projects
    • James Joyce 21
    • Project 2020 Together, Le Chéile
      • Press Release
      • Project 2020 Exhibition
    • Exhibition Universal 🎵
      • Exhibition Universal 1: Friendship
      • Exhibition Universal 2: Home
    • GEL Project
  • Exhibitions
    • The Bubbauns
    • Stars and Souls of the Liffey
    • Guilfoyle Family : Moses Basket
    • The Shirley Lewis Scrapbook 1917
    • Linda(Betty)Egan Archive
    • Crolly Dolls
    • Nancy Drew at 90
    • Lorraine O’Connors 1960’s Doll House
    • Rachel Dawnay’s Doll House
    • The Reddin Family’s Suncar.
    • Dr Damien O’Muirí’s Enid Blyton books
    • The Clifford Cradle
    • Rachel Finnegan’s Doll Kitchen
  • Events
    • Bloomsday 2020
    • Bloomsday 2019
    • Bloomsday 2018
    • Bloomsday 2017
    • Heritage Week 2020
    • Heritage Week 2019
    • Heritage Week 2018
      • ”Warts and all”
    • Heritage Week 2017
    • Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2020
    • Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2019
    • Culture Night /Oíche Chultúir 2018
    • Culture Night / Óiche Chultúir 2017
    • Children in War, 2020-21
    • Children in War 2018-2019
    • Children in War 2017
  • Talks
    • Cliona Buckley
    • Play and Growing Up in Dublin
    • Angela Patton
    • Seumas O’Kelly
    • Martin Swords
    • Jane Stanford
    • John Goggins
    • Veronica Haywood
  • Workshops at the Museum
    • Poetry with Chiamaka Enyi -Amadi
    • Shakespeare Lives
  • Photo Gallery
  • About the Museum
    • Our Museum Worldwide
    • Governance
    • A Museum of Childhood
    • Our Aims
    • Who We Are
    • Some Background
    • Making It Happen – initial stages
    • Technology and Exhibition Design
    • Programmes and Exhibitions
    • We Love
  • Welcome
    • Our Board and Project Group.
  • DONATE
  • Get Involved
  • Why a Museum of Childhood?
  • Artist in Residence 2021, Fion Gunn
  • Event:Growing Up in Late 20th C Ireland
  • History Blog
  • History of Children and Childhood
    • History of Children and Childhood, 1500-1700
    • History of Children and Childhood, 1700-1800
  • Education Blog Reflections On . . .
    • Reflections On . . . Being a Leaving Cert Student in 2020
    • Reflections On . . . Formal Education as a Member of the Traveller Community
    • Reflections On . . . Anti-Bullying Strategies in Early Education
    • Reflections On . . . “Coming Out” (or “Bearing Witness”?) as a Teacher
  • Children’s Rights Blog
  • Children’s Rights
    • Children’s Day 2020
  • Projects
    • James Joyce 21
    • Project 2020 Together, Le Chéile
      • Press Release
      • Project 2020 Exhibition
    • Exhibition Universal 🎵
      • Exhibition Universal 1: Friendship
      • Exhibition Universal 2: Home
    • GEL Project
  • Exhibitions
    • The Bubbauns
    • Stars and Souls of the Liffey
    • Guilfoyle Family : Moses Basket
    • The Shirley Lewis Scrapbook 1917
    • Linda(Betty)Egan Archive
    • Crolly Dolls
    • Nancy Drew at 90
    • Lorraine O’Connors 1960’s Doll House
    • Rachel Dawnay’s Doll House
    • The Reddin Family’s Suncar.
    • Dr Damien O’Muirí’s Enid Blyton books
    • The Clifford Cradle
    • Rachel Finnegan’s Doll Kitchen
  • Events
    • Bloomsday 2020
    • Bloomsday 2019
    • Bloomsday 2018
    • Bloomsday 2017
    • Heritage Week 2020
    • Heritage Week 2019
    • Heritage Week 2018
      • ”Warts and all”
    • Heritage Week 2017
    • Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2020
    • Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2019
    • Culture Night /Oíche Chultúir 2018
    • Culture Night / Óiche Chultúir 2017
    • Children in War, 2020-21
    • Children in War 2018-2019
    • Children in War 2017
  • Talks
    • Cliona Buckley
    • Play and Growing Up in Dublin
    • Angela Patton
    • Seumas O’Kelly
    • Martin Swords
    • Jane Stanford
    • John Goggins
    • Veronica Haywood
  • Workshops at the Museum
    • Poetry with Chiamaka Enyi -Amadi
    • Shakespeare Lives
  • Photo Gallery
  • About the Museum
    • Our Museum Worldwide
    • Governance
    • A Museum of Childhood
    • Our Aims
    • Who We Are
    • Some Background
    • Making It Happen – initial stages
    • Technology and Exhibition Design
    • Programmes and Exhibitions
    • We Love

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This is beautiful from Martina Connolly Metscher. ❤️“My mum was born in 1929 and would be around 5 or 6 years old in the photo. She grew up around Infirmary road (Dublin), her father a captain in the Irish army, her Mother a widow with 3 children. Remarried she then had 3 more, 2 brothers and mum. She was the eldest. Her name Margaret (peggy )Cummins. Ellen was her mum and her dad was Joseph. Her grandfather was in the English army stationed in India with his family.” ...

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Swinging from the lampost, a popular game at one time. This photo is from Gardiner Street in Dublin in 1955. ...

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Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley’s, (History Lead at the Museum of Childhood Ireland), contribution on Morning Ireland yesterday. Please have a listen, if you missed it live. Sarah-Anne Buckley Morning Ireland RTÉ ...

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Memories of the 1970s and 1980s.Mike Mahon.“This little piece is a collection of my own memories of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as some recent local history about the areas of Dundrum, Kilmacud, Stillorgan and South Dublin. I hope it might bring back some good memories for anyone that was around back then.”drive.google.com/file/d/12Vcf2PbruK0gOlAvP8dYmFGD1wu1GsQR/view?usp=drivesdk“Here's a link to my writings about growing up in the 70s and 80s and some of the photos from back then.” ...

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