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    Old Ireland in Colour 2
    Old Ireland in Colour 2
    Old Ireland in Colour 2
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    Old Ireland in Colour 2

    By John Breslin and Sarah Anne Buckley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMerrion Press
    Release dateSep 9, 2021
    ISBN9781785374135
    Old Ireland in Colour 2
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    John Breslin

    John Breslin is a Professor at NUI Galway, where he has taught engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship over a twenty-year period. He has written over 200 publications and co-authored two books. He is co-founder of boards.ie, adverts.ie, and the PorterShed.

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      Old Ireland in Colour 2 - John Breslin

      Title Page

      First published in 2021 by

      Merrion Press

      10 George’s Street

      Newbridge

      Co. Kildare

      Ireland

      www.merrionpress.ie

      © John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley, 2021

      9781785374111 (Cloth)

      9781785374135 (Epub)

      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.

      Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro, Garamond and Avenir.

      Cover design and typeset by: riverdesignbooks.com

      Front cover image: SUBLICHS; May 1954, Loughrea, Co. Galway; Members of the Sheridan and O’Brien families from the Irish Travelling community. Sublich is the Cant (a language spoken by the Travelling community) term for boys; Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire; Source: National Library of Ireland Ref.: WIL 13[54].

      Back cover image: BALLYVAUGHAN; c.1880–1900, Co. Clare; A late-nineteenth-century scene of Ballyvaughan in the north-west of Clare; Photographer: Robert French; Source: National Library of Ireland; Ref.: L_ROY_04085.

      Merrion Press is a member of Publishing Ireland

      Opening credits:

      MR WYNNE; 26 October 1871, Castlebar, Co. Mayo; Thomas Wynne (1838–1893) set up his photographic studio in 1867. Mike Hannon, Thomas’s great-great-grandson, told us how Thomas’s daughter, Mary, set up her own studio in Loughrea in the 1890s. After 144 years in business, Wynne’s of Castlebar closed in 2011. Photographer: Thomas Wynne; Source: National Library of Ireland; Ref.: WYN1.

      EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS; 28 June 1932, Waterford; The Quinn family pictured outside their home, which was elaborately decorated for the 1932 Eucharistic Congress. While the main events were held in Dublin, there were expressions of piety across the country; Photographer: Poole Studio; Source: National Library of Ireland Ref.: POOLEWP 3922.

      KILKENNY HURLER; c.1923, Kilkenny; A member of the winning 1922 All-Ireland Kilkenny team; Photographer: WD Hogan; Source: National Library of Ireland Ref.: HOG 94.

      ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL; 1946, Lough Gowna, Co. Galway; Photographer: Fáilte Ireland; Source: Dublin City Library and Archive Ref.: vital: 17400.

      ‘THE IRISH WOMEN DEMAND THE VOTE’; c.1907–1914; A girl holding a basket containing a Votes for Women newspaper and placard. It was taken in a photographic studio and is part of a campaign of pro-suffrage publicity; Photographer: Unknown; Source: London School of Economics Ref.: TWL.2002.588.

      CATHERINE ‘KITTY’ KIERNAN (1893–1945); 1922, Granard, Co. Longford; A portrait of Kitty Kiernan, who was engaged to Michael Collins when he was shot dead in August 1922; Photographer: Unknown; Source: Wikimedia Commons.

      Acknowledgements

      About the Authors

      Introduction

      POLITICS AND REVOLUTION

      CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH

      WORKING LIFE

      SPORT AND LEISURE

      THE IRISH AND THE WORLD

      SCENIC IRELAND

      Photographic and Archival Collections

      Photographer and Source

      References

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      We could never have imagined how phenomenal the response to the first volume of Old Ireland in Colour would be, but the generosity and enthusiasm for the book has been extraordinary. We would like to start by thanking everyone for their support; for contacting us and telling us about your experiences, your families’ experiences, and your love for the project.

      Everyone at Merrion Press has encouraged this book, and us, from the very beginning. To Conor, Pa, Maeve and Wendy, our publicist Peter, and designer Latte, a huge thank you for your work. Critically, this book could not exist without the work and generosity of those in our libraries, archives and museums. A sincere thanks yet again to Jason Antic and Dana Kelley of DeOldify, without whom this project would not exist, and to ColorizeImages.com.

      Thank you to John Borgonovo, Ann Mhaidhcí, Kevin O’Hanlon, Kieran Campbell, Cillian Joy, David Hoare, Joanne Kenney, Lydia Syson, Sadhbh Byrne, Nicola Brennan, Kathryn Donohue, Ciara Breathnach, John Cunningham, Conall Ó Fátharta, Robert Gardiner, Brian John Spencer, Elaine Farrell and Eliza McKee. Thanks also to Derek Nagle of Bo Media for creating our wonderful promotional videos, and to Darren Sheehan (Dashka), who composed the amazing accompanying Old Ireland in Colour theme music.

      Finally, we want to thank our families, new and old, for their support. We hope we made you proud.

      ABOUT THE AUTHORS

      John Breslin is a Personal Professor in Electronic Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway, where he is director of the TechInnovate entrepreneurship programmes. He is co-PI of the Insight and Confirm SFI Research Centres. He is a co-founder of boards.ie, adverts.ie, and the PorterShed. From the Burren, he lives in Connemara.

      Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley is a Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland Galway. Chair of the Irish History Students’ Association, co-PI of the Tuam Oral History Project and Senior Research Fellow in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, she has authored/edited eight books and over fifty other publications.

      INTRODUCTION

      In January 2021, we began considering a follow-up to the first volume, initially with some reticence. The response to the first book had been so overwhelmingly positive, how could we add to it? Yet we knew there were so many moments, places and personalities that had to be excluded from the first book. We wanted to include more sport, leisure and work, more images of ‘ordinary’ life. School and childhood had emerged as being of particular interest to people, as had the diverse landscapes, streetscapes and domestic spaces Irish people occupied during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our aim remained the same – to bring Ireland’s modern history to life through the colourisation of black and white photographs. As a result of connections and communications from readers, we knew that Old Ireland in Colour had impacted unexpected groups. It has helped open conversations, many intergenerational, between families. It has been used in reminiscence therapy. It has allowed us all to be reflective and nostalgic during an extraordinary year.

      After deciding to create another volume, the question became: what format? We chose a thematic and broadly chronological structure again – starting the volume with an image of Miles Byrne, one of the participants of the 1798 Rebellion. Images of the broad theme Politics and Revolution lead into sections on Childhood and Youth, Working Life, Sport and Leisure, the Irish and the World, and, finally, Scenic Ireland. While the emphasis on Ireland’s photographic collections is dominant, we also included new ‘unseen’ images from John’s recently created ‘Breslin Archive’. All thirty-two counties are represented, and gender, social class, ethnicity, age, geography and religion are key to the narrative created. The photographs span from one

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