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Suggestions for Irish kitsch - 1960s to 1980s

  • 03-01-2015 10:44pm
    #1
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭


    I'm writing a story and I need ideas for Irish kitsch, i.e. certain records, tthings like flat-pack cardboard dolls houses, touristy yokes, statues of Virgin Marys, pictures of St. Padre Pio, anything else...


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  • #2
    gipi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭gipi


    How about the "holy trinity" of pictures that were always on the wall - the Sacred Heart in the middle (with a red bulb at his heart....I kid you not!), the pope on one side and JFK on the other!

    When Irish folk started to go to Spain on package holidays, there was a plethora of sombreros and plastic bull ornaments brought back!


  • #3
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭George White


    Yes, the Sacred Heart, my grandmother had that.


  • #4
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,600 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    "white lady" statues, people leaving the yellow lens filters on their cars to show they'd been to France, Sodastreams nobody ever had the gas for, fondue sets given as wedding presents and left with the "good" crockery but never used.

    Hideous greco-roman columns on the front of oversized, badly heated bungalows so you could think you were the Ewings; serving hatches so you could think you were Hyacinth Bucket.


  • #5
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i shot JR teeshirts


  • #6
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    fryup wrote: »
    i shot JR teeshirts

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  • #7
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Copies of Ireland's Own
    'fabric' style paintings. I know a lot of houses had them.


  • #8
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Showbands and Country N Irish singers with their hideous outfits and cheesy publicity photos.

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  • #9
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Moving Statues! :D


  • #10
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The cheap Irish tourist souvenirs, painted wall hanging plates or ashtrays with 'Souvenir of (insert name of town)', thoughtfully bought by an auntie or some other well-meaning relative. Usually stamped Foreign Made on the back.

    Glass cases of china cups, plates, glasses and decanters that are never used.

    Holy water fonts in every room, except the bog.

    Spooky holy pictures, with the eyes that watch you!


  • #11
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The china dogs over the fireplace were quite common.

    http://www.kitchenclarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/staffordshiredogs.jpg


    And this lad....

    http://thecrypt.ie/584-944-thickbox/infant-child-of-prague-5.jpg


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  • #12
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    The china dogs over the fireplace were quite common.

    http://www.kitchenclarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/staffordshiredogs.jpg


    And this lad....

    http://thecrypt.ie/584-944-thickbox/infant-child-of-prague-5.jpg

    Old Infant De Pragues are becoming collectors items strangely enough.You see them in a lot of pubs and I know a guy who sells them at a vintage market.He says Stephen Rea the actor bought a couple of them from him.


  • #13
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    H. Williams football!
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    Texaco radio watch
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    Maxol "Free a nipper"
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    Rock with a towns name on it, like bray, I expect "souvenir shops" would have these.
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    Plastic bottles of knock holy water.
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  • #14
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Net curtains that only covered the bottom half of the window.


  • #15
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Postcards of a donkey behind a hedge
    Or a donkey next to a cottage
    Or a donkey and card on a dirt road
    Or a donkey


  • #16
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Professey Chin wrote: »
    Postcards of a donkey behind a hedge
    Or a donkey next to a cottage
    Or a donkey and card on a dirt road
    Or a donkey

    Good one, the John Hinde postcard; donkeys, colleens and carrot-topped kids.


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