Erin Introduction The Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann, proudly presents a selection of Beanie Babies, part of our Dorothy Hanley Collection. These small, plush collectibles captured the hearts and imaginations of children worldwide throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, representing not just toys but cultural artefacts that tell a compelling story about… Continue reading Beanie Babies: Treasures of Childhood in the Dorothy Hanley* Collection
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Mick Kehoe’s Playmobil Figures, 1970s, 80s
Mick Kehoe’s Playmobile Figures form part of a large collection of Playmobil figures, playsets and related childhood stories from the 70s to the present day, currently being photographed and researched by Lauren Kavanagh at the Museum of Childhood Ireland. Playmobil Invented by Hans Beck, the ‘Father of Playmobil’, playmobil is a line of toys that… Continue reading Mick Kehoe’s Playmobil Figures, 1970s, 80s
Film & TV Toys
Display in BOI, Dún Laoghaire, December 2024 on Toys influenced by Film and TV Shows in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Toys I received as gifts at Christmas “I grew up watching TV and going to the cinema every chance I got. There were plenty of repeats of The Lone Ranger on television in the 60s,… Continue reading Film & TV Toys
MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2024
Ongoing project Two 3rd and 4th class primary school classes gathered information from parents and grandparents about their childhoods, including celebratory holidays and traditions for a curriculum history module, and engaged with the museum to explore the subject. As a group they also watched the RTE Today Show with Dáithí and Maura for the lovely… Continue reading MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2024
Brenda Carey’s Clackers
Photo credit: Clackers: Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann Brenda Carey’s story, Dublin 1970s “I was out working by the age of fourteen, but I was still a child. Clackers came in in the 1970s. I spotted them in a shop on Aungier St, just past Whitefriers St Church, on the opposite side… Continue reading Brenda Carey’s Clackers
Richard Collier’s Toy Collection
Toy Collecting Growing up, watching TV was a big part of my childhood. Naturally, when Christmas and birthdays came around, I would ask for the toys associated with those cartoons and movies. Many hours were spent browsing toys in Banba Toymaster Dun Laoghaire, hoping that I could get the toys I wanted and those that… Continue reading Richard Collier’s Toy Collection
MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2023
History of Toys. The Museum of Childhood Ireland worked with Dublin Primary school students on a curriculum history strand: Learning from the past, through a programme of exploration of toys that children played with from the 1900s to the 1980s. Teacher overview:
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