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Kiskadee: Jungle

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Colourful advertisement for Kiskadee rum, showing a variety of scenarios where people enjoy the drink. The advertisement is accompanied by a lively soundtrack and strapline: ‘Kiskadee, that’s the way the playground swings.’ To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Bass Ale: The Dubliners

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An advertisement for Bass Ale, in which The Dubliners are seen traveling from an airport to a Dublin pub (O’Donoghue’s, Merrion Row). where they sing a song and enjoy a pint of the Cork ale. Inside, the group sing a song to the tune of Rocky Road to Dublin and Ronnie Drew drinks from a […]
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Spike: Spike That Thirst

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Advertisement for the soft drink Spike, showing people drinking the product in various situations, i.e. a couple on a motorbike, young people dancing, a band, and at a bowling alley. A jingle is heard throughout, singing: ‘you better Spike it.’ To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Player’s Gold Leaf: Two Words

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An advertisement for Gold Leaf cigarettes, featuring stylish colourful images and contemporary music. This advert won ‘Best Tobacco Products (TV) & Best Irish Market’ in the International Category at the 1967 American Television Commercials Festival, the trophy of which is housed in the IFI Irish Film Archive. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, […]
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Golden Vale: Easi Singles

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A woman preparing food thinks about how convenient it would be to have individually wrapped slices of cheese. Suddenly, a packet of Easi Singles appears. The voiceover explains how convenient they are, before the woman breaks into a song about Easi Singles. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Halpins Tea: Up and Down

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Advertisement in which a group of domestic servants perform a musical number, singing about the growth of Halpins tea while the lady of the house is served her tea. To see more from The Irish Adverts Project, click here.
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Club Orange: Big O

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Roller-skaters skate through a park, a surfer falls from his surfboard, swimmers hold hands in the sea, a wind-surfer prepares to set off, all intercut with shots of a bottle being opened and bubbling over. The strapline concludes: ‘Let the big O flow’ and the music lyrics repeat ‘Let the big O flow, Club Orange’. […]
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Goodbye Darling

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Goodbye Darling is one day in the enduring love story of Irish Volunteer Michael Joseph O’Rahilly and his wife Nancy. It is day five of the 1916 Rising, and as the fighting intensifies, a concerned Nancy seeks comfort and diversion by playing the piano, unaware that her husband is leaving the beleaguered G.P.O. to lead […]
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Christmas Morning

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Directed by Tiernan MacBride, this short film – nominated for a Palme d’Or in 1978 for Best Short Film – is a visual representation of the Irish folk song Arthur McBride and The Sergeant, played and sung by Irish singer Paul Brady. The lyrics tell the story of Arthur McBride (Paul Bennett) and his cousin […]
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Puss in Boots Panto – Amharc Éireann: Eagrán 83

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The legendary Panto Puss in Boots comes to Our Lady’s Hall, Mourne Road, Drimnagh. This amateur production has the whole community busily involved. Locals from Crumlin and Drimnagh offer their spare time and skills to help production, from acting and costume design to set design, electrics and carpentry. This is a play made by the […]
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