In the anthropologist Daniel Miller’s book The Comfort of Things (2008), he explores the possessions in thirty houses on an ordinary London street. One of these homes was owned by Hugh and Mary, Irish emigrants who spent forty years managing pubs in post World War Two...
A Chairde, I am delighted to be introducing The Photo Album of the Irish: England coordinated by the Photo Museum of Ireland and families featured. The stories shared in this book each represent a unique experience of migration and family ties; however, all are...
Writer Darren Campion considers the pivotal role of photography in sustaining a sense of belonging to a particular place, family or community for emigrants from the perspective of the family album.
Photography and the family album – essay by Darren Campion explores the social role of photography.
In her essay ‘An evening with the photograph album’ Stephanie McBride explores the ‘unconscious optics’ in our photo albums.
In Ireland, the first photograph was made of a bridge on the River Lagan in Belfast by Francis Stewart Beatty, a Belfast engraver, in September 1839…
In Ireland, the first photograph was made of a bridge on the River Lagan in Belfast by Francis Stewart Beatty, a Belfast engraver, in September 1839…
Early amateur photographers were primarily drawn from the Landed Gentry. They had the necessary time and resources…
Towards the end of the 19th Century the photographic landscape was radically altered by the introduction of new developments in photographic technology…
Irish physicist John Joly – famous for his development of radiotherapy – developed one of the first colour photographic processes…