National Print Museum

Did you collect keepsakes from your travels? ✈️

In preparation for our new exhibition, Come Fly With Me, we issued a public call for material and were delighted by the wonderful response.

Rosemary O’Tierney, a former air hostess, kept baggage labels from her travels around the world, creating a unique record of her journeys.

A big thank you to Rosemary, and to everyone who generously offered and loaned material. Your contributions have helped enrich this exhibition with personal stories of travel!

Visit Come Fly With Me: Aviation, tourism and Irish design from Friday 17 July. Free admission.

Come Fly With Me

Given huge autonomy by Aer Lingus and Sun Advertising, the Dutch designers focused on what they saw as unique to Ireland and of interest to prospective tourists. They took familiar motifs: lakes, mountains, cottages, fishing boats, the Dublin quays, and framed these within a visual Modernism informed by European and US illustrative styles.

Visit the new exhibition from Friday to explore. Admission free of charge and no booking necessary.

Guus Melai (1923–2000) Dublin: Fly There By Aer Lingus 1954, screenprint Hely’s, Irish Posters Collection, National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), NCAD, Dublin.

NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library

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Guus Melai (1923-2000), Ireland - Aer Lingus Irish Air Lines, brochure, 1955, lithography, as mounted by Melai. Collection of Linda King.

Interested in experiencing the craft of letterpress printing as practised by the Elizabeth Yeats?

Join the team from the National Print Museum in the afternoon of our symposium for a live printing session. This is a unique opportunity to pull a bespoke letterpress keepsake in celebration of the Cuala Press and experience the beauty of traditional printing in action

We’re thrilled to be partnering with the National Print Museum at this year’s symposium who will kindly host a live printing session.



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