The Irish childhood c.1970

100 Editions 60 x 60cms (24 x 24 inches) Sold Framed and Unframed 

100 Limited Editions of 1970s heaven

40 x 40 inches Sold Unframed in a solid cardboard tube

Barrys Tea

Mrs Doyle and every Mother in Ireland, the cure of all ailments

Tayto

An emotional connection for life no matter where you are in the world and you used to be able to make badges out of the packaging!

Choc Ice

Listening out for the tune from the Ice Cream Van at tea time and Mum would put them in the fridge till after dinner.

Guinness

A legendary part of Irish culture, all Da’s went to the pub for a pint of the black stuff

Cara Matches

My nana would like the fire, the super soar and the gas oven with these

Kimberely

Best Christmas biscuit

7up

Mothers 1970’s antibiotic

Ambre Solaire Oil

Baking in the sun with zero factor

Fairy

Every child who watched Blue Peter needed this when mum was finished to make a fairy rocket

Lucozade

Home sick from school or in hospital in the 1970s, Mammy would arrive with the Lucozade

Milky Moo Mint

They lived in my Nanas handbag

Sudocrem

From the cradle to the grave, Irish Mammies go to remedy