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From tickets to see the pope to WWII relics, the campaign is looking for the objects we've treasured Ciaran Deeney

Bosco mugs to ration books: Do you have objects that could help tell the story of Ireland's last 100 years?

A new campaign is calling on the public to help tell the story of Ireland over the past 100 years through everyday objects.

FROM JFK MEMORABILIA to election pamphlets, the old items we have gathering dusts in our homes reveal something about the history of Ireland.

Now RTÉ and the National Museum are looking for us to share those objects, telling the story of the country over the past 100 years through the objects still owned by families.

The National Treasures campaign is looking to collect these objects and, as part of four public roadshows in October, have curators inspect the objects to see if they deserve the status of “national treasures”. A four-part TV show, based on the roadshows, will broadcast on RTÉ next year.

The objects will then be exhibited in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life in Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo.

“We’re asking ordinary people to come together and help crowdsource a history using the fantastic objects that they have at home,” project director Ciarán Deeney said today. “There’s a great chance that your cherished object or amazing family heirloom could be deemed a ‘national treasure’.”

We’re looking for anything that touches on who we are as a people and tells its own tale about the story of Ireland. Sometimes the simplest object can be a trigger for an amazing piece of social history and significant cultural value can be found in the strangest items.

Members of the public can submit their own objects, and view what else has been submitted, on the campaign’s website.

Items people have already submitted include a ticket stub from a 1992 Nirvana concert in the Point Depot, a ticket from the Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979 and an Irish army helmet from WWII.

In fact, the campaign advises that you don’t clean objects before submitting items: “‘Wear and tear’ tells its own story.”

RTÉ Director of Audience, Channels and Marketing, Adrian Lynch said that the broadcaster is excited to share “a unique take on the story of Ireland’s social history through the objects that they treasure”.

Tony Candon, Manager Keeper of the Museum of Country Life, said that the campaign suited the museum’s aims.

The Museum of Country Life focuses on the lives of the ordinary people in the last couple of centuries and it is the logical and ideal place to display the objects collected as national treasures. Co-curating exhibitions with the public is something that we have being putting emphasis on in the last few years and National Treasures fits that bill, to a tee!

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    Mute in_zane_burger
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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:06 PM

    Can I have my money back now

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:33 PM

    It’s like’…..burning your furniture – to keep warm!

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 4:52 PM

    Why are PwC saying this instead of IBRC and NAMA?

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 5:20 PM

    As property prices start to rise nama , ibrc start to dump property

    Can someone explain why?

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 5:56 PM

    Dumping loans philip, not property. They’re Dumping the loans as they’re non-performing and want to get them off the balance sheet.

    If they had the patience, they’d put arrangements in place to allow the properties to return to positive equity and then seek a sale, this recouping more of the tax payers money.

    Unfortunately, they’ll sell the loans for a discount and allow the new purchasers to do this and net a tidy profit.

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 5:02 PM

    The article outlines that IBRC (IBROKE would probably be a better name) will offload € 15 billion in loans.
    Yet the linked article tells us that IBROKE have already offloaded 90% of its loanbook, € 19.8 billion out of € 21.7 billion leaving just € 1.9 billion on hand.
    This can only mean, if the previous article is correct, that it is NAMA that is offloading the majority of the loans.
    Why the subterfuge?
    Why make people think that this is some kind of joint enterprise when it is NAMA that is leading the charge?
    Have the shiny suit brigade from the canal something to hide?
    Given their obsession with secrecy it would not surprise me if they have, perhaps selling the loans to some preferred customer with an inside track at a serious discount.
    The way things go it will all be wrapped up before we know anything, plus ça change.

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 2:58 PM

    Who in their right mind would buy this junk?

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:01 PM

    It might only be worth 30% of face value but if you buy it for 20% it’s a good deal. For the buyer anyway.

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:06 PM

    @ Irish Revolution

    The Banks?

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    Apr 3rd 2014, 2:42 AM

    Hedge funds bought it. They will now sell off all the ghost estates etc at a lower price so people that have houses for sale at the min will eventually have to sell for half or take them off the market.
    Fab house here in drogheda asking price €325. Hilarious. You could now nearly get a house for that on raglan road or ailsbury road!! So that house is realistically worth less than €150 really.
    People and notions ha

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 7:04 PM

    What about Bank of Scotland selling on my mortgage & others in their Irish portfolio to a company called Tanager Ltd.
    I’m in a tizzy all day because I don’t know what it means for us.

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