Colour photograph of Dame Street showing 4 cyclists by City Hall taken by Charles Cushman on 8 June 1961.
Sans titreA print of a black and white photograph of Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir, the founders of the Gate Theatre, walking in St. Stephen’s Green in 1975 taken by Bill Doyle.
Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir were romantic and business partners who opened the Gate Theatre together in 1928. Both were born in England. The photograph is by Bill Doyle, ‘Ireland’s Cartier-Bresson.’
Black and white photograph of Samuel Beckett taken by John Minihan in Paris in 1985 with the written caption ‘Samuel Beckett photographed near his home on Boulevard St Jacques, Paris, 1985.’
Samuel Beckett grew up in Foxrock, but spent most of his life in Paris, where he is here captured near his home on the Boulevard St. Jacques. Beckett is most famous for his minimalist plays, often laced with dark humour, like Waiting for Godot and Endgame. The man who took this photograph, John Minihan, is an engaging figure who recalls his youth with a puckish twinkle.
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.
Group portrait of the men who built the exhibition hall for the 1907 International Exhibition
Sans titreoriginal, sepia-toned photo of the four courts fire, 1922. framed
Sans titreA collection of original black and white press photographs related to various events and figures in Irish life dating 1919--1939.
Sans titreKodak leather bag with camera
Yashica T4 camera
Kodak Tele disc in Hanimex case
Polaroid Supercolour 635 in Panasonic Case
Polaroid OneStep close up
19 Postcards depiciting Irish scenes
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