Irish logos of yesteryear

20-07-2010 3:02am #1

Was trying to come up with a few Irish logos or something symbolic of now defunct companies or companies that have been renamed. It can be any type of company, i.e Co council or state owned company or private company. it can even be something for example like a pic of the old yellow school bus or the old p & t public phone boxes or uniforms/ vehicles with livery of the day. it can even be a product sold in ireland. i.e chocolate bar wrapper, old coke can, etc

Heres a few to start off

Dept of post and telegraphs (Now eircom and An post respective)
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Telecom Eireann (now eircom) logo used 1984-1999

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CIE (1964-
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CIE /DUTC (Flying snail 1944-64)

Dublin Bus with 'Quinnsworth' livery
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20-07-2010 3:12am

Wouldn't be a proper thread without good old Mr Tayto

Esat digifone (now o2 ireland)

Eircell (now vodafone reland )

Max_Damage · 20-07-2010 7:51am

3p for a packet of crisps, man, they were the days!

lord lucan · 20-07-2010 5:11pm

Old AIB logo.

lord lucan · 20-07-2010 5:29pm

Irish Rail logo that was used from 1987-1994.

20-07-2010 5:52pm

RTE 61-78

colour version early 70s

1978 (2 station era begins)

rte 2 1978

rte 2 mid 80's

lord lucan · 20-07-2010 6:54pm

Cablelink (precursor to NTL/UPC)

Eircell 088(my first mobile) before being bought by Vodafone.

lord lucan · 20-07-2010 7:09pm

icdg · 20-07-2010 9:46pm

Deleted User wrote: »

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CIE (1964-

That one's not entirely gone away! Although it was replaced by a modernised version in 2000 (which is basically the same design but with "CIE" in CIE 2000 font and the wheel a bit stylised with jagged edges), you'll still see this version crop up in odd places like the back of Season Tickets and even more wierdly, on the Railway Order application for the DART Underground (or at least, the posters advertising it in Pearse Station)!

20-07-2010 10:01pm

icdg wrote: »

That one's not entirely gone away! Although it was replaced by a modernised version in 2000 (which is basically the same design but with "CIE" in CIE 2000 font and the wheel a bit stylised with jagged edges), you'll still see this version crop up in odd places like the back of Season Tickets and even more wierdly, on the Railway Order application for the DART Underground (or at least, the posters advertising it in Pearse Station)!

your right but i think typeface is more modern also on new version. give me the good old fashioned version any day. memories of the big yellow school bus passing the house every day with the famous logo.

gipi · 20-07-2010 10:19pm

Each Health Board used to have its own logo, all retired since the monster that is the HSE came into being!

Before that, the old Eastern Health Board was split up in 2000 to ERHA and 3 area health boards, all of which had their own logos.

The logo below is the one for the EHB (Eastern Health Board)

20-07-2010 10:28pm

Here is south eastern version before Mr Drumm came in with his big salary and himself and Mary joined forces to make it a bigger pigs ear then it already was

EDIT: you tube videos of old ads also welcome

22-07-2010 5:59pm

2fm

Any one have radio 2 logos or radio 1???

22-07-2010 9:04pm

Does anyone remember a logo for an Irish company which had a green shamrock shape with a letter in each leaf? The leaves were in a circular shape. There's a building in Fairview which still has the outline of this logo on it's exterior where the sign used to be. I have a feeling it might be the old ACC logo but not entirely sure.

Run_to_da_hills · 23-07-2010 2:24am

Tabnabs · 23-07-2010 4:43pm

Remember all the houses in Dublin got a commemorative milk bottle? :pac:

Ruu_Old · 23-07-2010 4:56pm

Is this one still used?

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lord lucan · 23-07-2010 4:56pm

Still have that milk bottle as well as the Italia 90 one too.:)

lord lucan · 23-07-2010 4:58pm

Ruu wrote: »

Is this one still used?

Still around albeit with a newer logo.

23-07-2010 7:03pm

lord lucan wrote: »

Still have that milk bottle as well as the Italia 90 one too.:)

Same here, my parents kept theirs.

lord lucan · 23-07-2010 10:38pm

Karsini wrote: »

Same here, my parents kept theirs.

Might be worth a tenner in another 20 years!:pac:

stovelid · 24-07-2010 10:29am

Dyflin wrote: »

Remember all the houses in Dublin got a commemorative milk bottle? :pac:

Remember the commemorative 50p pieces?

24-07-2010 2:36pm

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

LMFAO at Swastika laundries. You wouldn't see it in Family Guy or the Simpsons. Who would even have kept that logo given what the more notorious one represented. What possessed them? Even the 1912 wouldn't make a difference in my view. Its so insensitive.

I hadn't heard of them previous but their is even a wiki page on them.
I still have the Premier Dairies Italia 90 milk bottle. I must post it up soon. Premier dont deliver round here anymore since the Waterford/Avonmore (glanbia plc) merger back in 1999 or 2000. Its all that KK stuff :rolleyes::D

Any old Superquinn or Dunnes pictures or logos?

24-07-2010 2:41pm

Ruu wrote: »

Is this one still used?

Remember the gaa jersies used carry that logo instead of the oneills one up to the late 90s?
speak of which

toe_knee · 24-07-2010 2:46pm

lord lucan · 24-07-2010 4:46pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Any old Superquinn or Dunnes pictures or logos?

Superquinns has only changed marginally. This is the old one.

This is the 'new' one.

ilovelamp2000 · 24-07-2010 5:52pm

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

That sign is still the same today.

lord lucan · 24-07-2010 6:35pm

lord lucan · 24-07-2010 7:02pm

The old Evening Press Newspaper.

L1011 · 25-07-2010 12:43am

I used to get my school lunch in that shop every day...

Ulster Bank, and their parent of course

bonerm · 25-07-2010 12:52am

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What street is that? It seems familar.

L1011 · 25-07-2010 1:03am

Georges St. in Dun Laoighaire I think.

gipi · 25-07-2010 7:04pm

Karsini wrote: »

Does anyone remember a logo for an Irish company which had a green shamrock shape with a letter in each leaf? The leaves were in a circular shape. There's a building in Fairview which still has the outline of this logo on it's exterior where the sign used to be. I have a feeling it might be the old ACC logo but not entirely sure.

Might it have been an old logo for Bord Failte (Irish Tourist Board) - I remember seeing some old logos at B&Bs around the country which had the letters I T and B in each of the leaves of the shamrock.

The Bord Failte logo itself of course should be in here, since BF is no more (replaced by Failte Ireland)!! Must hunt a copy....

25-07-2010 7:21pm

I don't think it was, I know the one you're referring to alright. If I remember I'll take a photo of that outline I saw in Fairview and put it up here.

Today I passed the Irish Glass site in Ringsend which brought the logo back to me. It doesn't seem to be on the net but I remember it well, also remember it engraved at the bottom of milk bottles.

irishgrover · 25-07-2010 7:28pm

Ruu wrote: »

Is this one still used?

On a related note but slighted off topic. I spent years living in the states and a young lady I knew (also Irish) had that logo tattooed at the top of her 'special area':eek:

lord lucan · 25-07-2010 7:52pm

Karsini wrote: »

Today I passed the Irish Glass site in Ringsend which brought the logo back to me. It doesn't seem to be on the net but I remember it well, also remember it engraved at the bottom of milk bottles.

It was some sort of stylised G,like 3 G's behind each other iirc. Can't find an image through Google at all.

Nolanger · 25-07-2010 7:59pm

icdg · 26-07-2010 12:20am

MYOB wrote: »

I used to get my school lunch in that shop every day...

Ulster Bank, and their parent of course

Still indeed used by NatWest in a slightly different version, its now red and a bit stylised.

Karsini wrote:

Does anyone remember a logo for an Irish company which had a green shamrock shape with a letter in each leaf? The leaves were in a circular shape. There's a building in Fairview which still has the outline of this logo on it's exterior where the sign used to be. I have a feeling it might be the old ACC logo but not entirely sure.

Its not the old ACC logo anyway, that was "A C C" in a triangular shape, with the "A" on top. Swapped for the present logo when the company name changed from Agricultural Credit Corporation plc to ACCBank plc.

If as suggested its an old Bord Fáilte logo, its not one I remember. The final Bord Fáilte logo was a green shamrock in a circle, with "Bord Fáilte Éireann" and "Irish Tourist Board" beside it. The even older Bord Fáilte logo, which you'll find on pre-1977 signposts, is a "V" with wings.

fatbhoy · 26-07-2010 10:34am

lord lucan wrote: »

The old Evening Press Newspaper.

Was this shop almost next door to Shamrock Rovers, and beside St. Annes school in Milltown?

L1011 · 26-07-2010 11:48am

fatbhoy wrote: »

Was this shop almost next door to Shamrock Rovers, and beside St. Annes school in Milltown?

No, it was and still is in Lucan beside Colaiste Padraig. With that Evening Press sign intact!

26-07-2010 9:28pm

MYOB wrote: »

No, it was and still is in Lucan beside Colaiste Padraig. With that Evening Press sign intact!

I knew the photo must have been recent due to the new National Lottery logo on there.

lord lucan · 26-07-2010 10:31pm

Karsini wrote: »

I knew the photo must have been recent due to the new National Lottery logo on there.

I only took it a few months ago. It's in the 'Ghost Signs' thread in the Dublin forum.:)

27-07-2010 2:01am

yermanoffthetv · 27-07-2010 2:38am

Bit of an Irish theme going so ill run with it.

stovelid · 27-07-2010 9:51am

Deleted User wrote: »

Jaysus, my eyes.

WindSock · 27-07-2010 10:17am

Superquinn Thrift!

who the fug · 27-07-2010 10:21am

Max_Damage wrote: »

3p for a packet of crisps, man, they were the days!

and 5p for a can of coke, went mental when it cost more than 10p for the two of them

lord lucan · 27-07-2010 10:43am

WindSock wrote: »

Superquinn Thrift!

Scary memories!! I spent 6 months packing that stuff on the shelves in the early '90's!:eek:

27-07-2010 9:59pm

Who were Bradburys?

gipi · 28-07-2010 10:31pm

A quick google brought up Bradbury's Bakeries, who have restaurants/coffee shops in Athy and Newbridge. Hard to see, but it does look like a bakery shop window in the background. Maybe post it in the Kildare forum to see if anyone recognises it?

kyote00 · 28-07-2010 11:01pm

bradburys was a bread/cake shop in Athy in the 70s/80s - excellent sticky buns and bracks....

gipi wrote: »

A quick google brought up Bradbury's Bakeries, who have restaurants/coffee shops in Athy and Newbridge. Hard to see, but it does look like a bakery shop window in the background. Maybe post it in the Kildare forum to see if anyone recognises it?

Irish logos of yesteryear

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