Furniture

“Originally, the high chair was used by our family in Birkenhead (Cheshire) in the early 1900s for their three daughters. The youngest married in 1938, and moved to Dalkey in 1946. The chair came too for her forthcoming son. Used next by the eldest in Dublin, In the late 1960s the chair travelled to Bangor, Co Down to be used by two of the… Continue reading Peter Kurtish- The Three Sisters’ High Chair, Dalkey

Victorian mahogany and cane rocking cradle.  Victorian mahogany and cane/ rattan rocking cradle, bought for the birth of James McAllister Clifford C.1898, of 2 Rus in Urbe, Dún Laoghaire. It has been carefully preserved and passed down through generations of the family and presented to the MoCI in July 2019. McAllister Collection

The Suncar. “This pushchair/ buggy/ arrived to number 20 Fitzgibbon St. Dublin 1 in 1918 for the birth of Mary Theresa Reddin. Sadly Mary Theresa died just two years later. In 1922 Joseph Patrick was born. He would be the Reddin’s only child . The pushchair, known in the family as ‘the Suncar’ was for taking Joseph out to the Phoenix park and to… Continue reading The Reddin Family’s Suncar.

This Moses basket was purchased in 1956 from the Richmond National Institution for the Industrious Blind, in O’Connell Street.  The basket was bought by May and Brendan Guilfoyle for the birth of their first child.  May and Brendan married in October 1955.  They lived in Dun Laoghaire,  first in a flat in Tivoli Terrace East,  and subsequently in a house in Crosthwaite Park which… Continue reading Guilfoyle Family Moses Basket

From the museum’s collection, Cow and Gate advertisement sign, baby formula milk tin and ‘Grip-tight’ glass baby feeding bottle Cow and Gate was the most popular dried powder milk for infants used in 20th century Ireland.  The manufacturers established factories in Cork and Wexford. the Gates brothers, from Surrey, England established a creamery in Kildorrery in 1887. In 1947 the manufacturing operation switched to… Continue reading Infant Formula and baby feeding bottle

The O’Neil family from Milltown, Co Dublin used the cradle down through generations of the family. 19th Century Irish pine, (hooded version), rocking cradle, Co Antrim. See the Francis, Mini McGovern and others, Tyrone, 1930s, story.(Rose Shaw photographs) in Snapshots for similar type of cradle: https://regionalfurnituresociety.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/irish-cradles-an-introductory-look-fionnuala-carragher.pdf O’Neil family Cradle, the McAllister Collection. Donated to the Museum of Childhood Ireland, 2018