Dulux: Matchmaker
Short advertisement introducing the Dulux Matchmaker 400, explaining how it can match any colour to create your preferred paint. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Donnelly’s Sausages: Insane
Animated advertisement for Donnelly’s sausages in which a woman on the stand pleads guilty to being insane about Donnelly’s sausages. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
Donnelly’s Sausages: Sherlock
A short animated advertisement for Donnelly’s sausages, featuring Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson. As they investigate Donnelly’s sausages, Watson finds himself tied up by a group of playful children. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
Scotties Tissues
An animated advertisement for Scotties Tissues, in which a man pulls tissues out of a box and explains how they stay soft, even when you crumple them up. The advertisement concludes with a freeze-frame showing the man leaning on the box of Scotties, with strapline: ‘Crumple Soft Scotties’. To see more from The Irish Adverts […]
Quix: Washing Up
Advertisement for Lemon Quix washing up liquid which cleans ‘even more for your money’. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
Musgrave Tea: Matchmaker
A humorous advertisement for PG Tips Tea. A man is stopped and searched by armed German police. They find a leaflet for the Musgrave Brook Bond Matchmaker scheme in the man’s pocket and become excited. Rounding up the rest of the police, they race off to avail of the scheme, avoiding gunfire while they shout […]
Jacob’s: Windmill
Light-hearted advertisement for Jacob’s Windmill biscuits in which 2 Dutch bakers pass off the ‘so crumbly, so buttery’ Windmill biscuits as their own creations. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here
Mi-Wadi: Orange Tree
An advertisement promoting Mi-Wadi as ‘the real thing’. A group of children are seen playing in the countryside before discovering a tree laden with Mi-Wadi bottles. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
Odorono: Like a Girl
A short advertisement for Odorono roll-on deodorant which, ‘like a girl’, is active, efficient and feminine. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
CIE: Traffic Control Room
An advertisement for CIE highlighting the unseen work done by inspectors in their control room to keep Dublin’s traffic network running smoothly. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
AIB: Students
A short advertisement for AIB, highlighting the usefulness of a chequebook to students. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
Carling Black Label: Carling Song
An advertisement for Carling Black Label, in which a man in a pub is transformed into a star of the stage while singing the lager jingle. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.