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A black and white photographic portrait of Gabriel Byrne taken by Conor Horgan.
LMODThere is a messer in every Dublin classroom. Jonathan Philbin Bowman was a freelance messer, at large in the city at a time – the late
1980s – when most of his peers were at school or college. The son of broadcaster John Bowman and his wife Dr Eimer Philbin Bowman, Jonathan had little time for conventional education, and was almost comically precocious. A fine mimic and boisterous conversationalist, he parlayed avocation as a journalist into an unlikely role at the centre of Dublin society. In the Coffee Inn, a famous dive-café on South Anne Street, the house speciality was the Bowman Burger (20p): one microwaved bowl of hot air. Their best customer was, of course, JPB. A great Dubliner, he died in 2000 at the age of 31.
A poster of a panoramic photograph over looking Dublin City taken for the European City of Culture, 1991 with the quote ‘... from swerve of shore to bend of bay ...’ Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce.
This photo commemorates Dublin’s reign as European City of Culture in 1991. The Scottish Ballet came over to symbolically hand over the title from Glasgow, and there was a 31-hour reading of Ulysses on the radio.
Black and white photograph of a boy, Martin Long, and a horse, Babyface, as taken by Perry Ogden in the 1990s for ‘Pony Kids'.
Perry Ogden is an acclaimed English photographer with a studio on Capel Street. His Pony Kids show was an artistic event of note in the mid-1990s. There is a subculture of young working class horse owners in Dublin’s inner city and some of the city’s most deprived suburbs. Horses and ponies are ridden bareback, bought and sold in Smithfield Square on the first Sunday of every month.
A black and white photographic portrait of Colm Tóibin in a room full of books with pages scattered on the ground taken by Perry Ogden.
Colm Tóibín stands in his office near Fitzwilliam Square. One of Ireland’s more astute commentators – and surely Dublin’s greatest networker – he was born in Wexford but has spent much of his life in the capital. Tóibín published his first novel, The South, in 1990, partly based on his experience of living in Barcelona. His other works include The Blackwater Lightship (1999) and a wonderful collection of short stories called The Empty Family (2010).
Black and White photos of Dublin scenes and people
LMODA collection of original black and white press photographs related to various events and figures in Irish life dating 1919--1939.
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Photo, Count John McCormack, framed. A large and good image of Count McCormack by The Cosway Gallery, London. Inscribed in ink on the border "To my friend Ivor Foster, souvenir of my concert in Dublin before going to America 30th Sept 1909" and signed. An early signature from Ireland's most famous tenor.
LMODEnvelope of photos and postcards, including photos of Samuel Beckett and press workers protest
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Mike Bunn photograph of Dublin punks in the 1980s.
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