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This year, as part of its Rooms Through Time exhibition, the museum opened a room imagined to be the 1956 Camden home of Irish newlyweds Kathleen and Jack. Supported by the London Irish Centre and with film-maker David Kelly as lead consultant, the curators recreated a “room upstairs”, where the Irish tenants might have rented a room from the live-in landlord, but shared the bathroom.
The room was littered with the accoutrements of its time. There was a period fiddle on loan from a music school. A pink hairdryer on the dressing table was apparently a popular item of the day. In the corner were a pair of 1950s hurleys. All of the items had their own stories and some were personal to those who had produced the exhibit: a suitcase sitting on top of the wardrobe had belonged to Kelly’s Kerry-born mother, who died in recent years at the age of 92.
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