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The story behind Michael Collins' wolf slippers


The story behind Michael Collins wolf slippers
Updated / Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021
08:12
What the Big Fellow kept under his bed in Dublin. Photo: Brenda Malone, Curator of Military History at the National Museum
Analysis: they re a well-worn pair of size 9, bright blue wool slippers with a wolf s head stitched on the toe caps
Most museums only have space to display a tiny fraction of their collection at any given time. The rest languish in storage, thousands of objects hidden in boxes and cupboards, awaiting a turn when fashion or interest dictates.
On my travels across Ireland researching my book,
The Darkness Echoing, I visited over 200 museums and heritage sites, looking for objects that lingered in the mind long after my visit was over. Occasionally, I was lucky enough to be offered a sneak peek behind the public display, and one of those rare treats came when Brenda Malone, curator of military history at the National Museum, allowed me into the stores ....

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All change: when Ireland switched to 'new money'


It was dubbed D-Day, the day Ireland woke up to a new currency and abandoned £.s.d., a monetary system that had “debauched generations of school children”, according to Labour’s Justin Keating.
Fifty years ago, a cold and wet Monday, February 15, 1971, “the new money”, as decimal currency was known, came into circulation, with 100p to the pound, instead of 240d or 20 shillings.
The date was picked so that Ireland could make this leap in tandem with our British neighbours.
The transition from old to new had been championed by Minister for Finance Charlie Haughey, while two of its most strident critics were in Fine Gael. ....

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