New book reveals 101 items to remind us of the way we were

Dan McCarthy takes a trip down memory lane with a book that charts 101 items from our recent popular history from TV show Wanderly Wagon to the Aran jumper to the ‘I shot JR car sticker’    

Our recent history is replete with names that trip off the tongue. In the political sphere, Collins and De Valera; Pearse and Connolly. In the literary sphere, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce.

In the industrial sphere Model-T, Aer Lingus, Sony. Multiple other arenas provide the iconic names by which we negotiate our lives. But there is much more. There is the daily stuff that may last for just a few years or even months but with which we still formed a connection.