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Macardles: Opposities

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Advertisement for Macardles beer depicting a series of contrasting events and situations. The voiceover sums up that in any situation, the answer is always Macardles. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Jacob’s: Club Goldgrain

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A German professor visits South America to explain the production of Jacob’s Club Goldgrain chocolate biscuits. The professor and the South Americans disagree over the pronunciation of ‘Jacob’s’. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Hoffman’s: Speedboat

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Advertisement for Hoffman’s lager in which a voiceover explains how Bill has lost his friend Gavin’s speedboat but continues to smile because he’s drinking a pint of Hoffman’s. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Made to mark the 25th anniversary of one of the most dramatic periods of Northern Ireland history when in 1981 ten men, including elected MP Bobby Sands, starved to death on hunger strike for the right to political status in prison. The events served as a unifying force for Irish nationalists and marked a watershed […]
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Telecom Éireann: Anti-Vandalism

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Back in the 1980s, long before smart phones were dreamt of and when many houses didn’t have a landline, phone boxes containing payphones were a feature of the rural and urban landscape. In this public information film a youth is in the act of vandalizing a payphone before he is confronted by a gang of […]
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