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12 evocative vintage snapshots from Irish family photo albums
Scroll through The Photo Album of Ireland.
FAMILY PHOTO ALBUMS have a universal appeal.
The Photo Album of Ireland, supported by The Gallery of Photography, Monaghan County Council and Dublin City Council, is an online based project providing an outlet for people to share their family pictures and amateur photography.
The album hopes to capture Ireland’s social evolution, from 1839 right up to the 1990s.
The aim of the project, as stated on the website, is to “give an insight into our private and public histories.” Contributions from across the country showcase both rural and suburban settings as backdrops to weddings, births, holidays and historical events in Ireland.
1. A candid shot of the Clancy family enjoying Christmas at home in 1970
2. Organised by height, siblings of the Clune family gather for a portrait outside their Galway home
3. There are Waking Ned flashbacks in this image courtesy of amateur photographer Declan Gilroy
4. A teenage David Hall, from Donegal, proudly showing off his catch of the day
5. The vibrant flowers of Maureen Dunne’s garden in Cork beautifully frame this sweet duo
6. Eugene Clerkin captures a lone farmer tending to his crops in Monaghan
7. Four generations of Dublin’s Meerwald Baker family shown together, in an overgrown garden, enjoying the sunshine
8. A young Seán Conlon in the barber’s seat getting a classic short back and sides
9. Taken in Lafayette Studio, Ireland’s longest established photography business, this portrait taken in 1939 is a smart representation of the Buckeridge family
10. Joyous scenes from Doreen Stewart’s wedding at Drum Presbyterian, Co Monaghan, complete with pastel-hued bridesmaids and a kilted page boy
11. Members of the Masterson family overseeing a great mound of potatoes in their garden, circa 1935
12. Two teenage boys surveying the aftermath of the demolition of houses in Belfast, almost half a century ago
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