Cool Bratz, 2001 We are interested in hearing about your experiences of playing with or collecting Bratz. You can contact the MCI team at: info@museumofchildhood.ie Research on Bratz Dolls in the Dorothy Hanley Collection by Jane Leonard, Museum of Childhood Ireland Intern (QUB MA) Introduction Bratz Rock Angelz, 2006 Boy Bratz, 2002 Dolls Kill X… Continue reading Bratz Dolls in the Dorothy Hanley Collection
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John and Michael’s Toy Garage
“Our father, who was from Co. Cork, met our mother while working in the City of Lincoln Hospital in England in the mid 1950s, and by the early 1960s they had settled in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, where my father was the County Hospital surgeon. By that stage they had two small boys, myself Michael and… Continue reading John and Michael’s Toy Garage
The Dorothy Hanley Collection
“Dorothy Anne Hanley was born Dorothy Challans in 1929 in Lincolnshire, England. Dorothy met and in 1955 married Joe Hanley, who came from West Cork, when Joe was working as a trainee surgeon at Lincoln hospital. A few years after their marriage, and the the birth of their first two children, they moved to Ireland, where after a short time Joe was appointed… Continue reading The Dorothy Hanley Collection