This collection of photographs offers a snapshot of various aspects of Irish life, from fox hunts in rural Galway to the social realities of abandoned housing estates. It also touches upon historical events, such as the 1916 Rising and the IRA's involvement, as well as glimpses into contemporary leisure activities and the enduring allure of Dublin's canals.
A band plays Dixie at Dundalk, County Louth, in 2014, as a man starts to strip to the beat. The crowd, who suddenly come alive, egg him on as a security guard gives chase. Photograph: Seamus MurphyThe North Galway hunt in pursuit of a fox. The hunt stretches north of Galway city along Lough Corrib in the west and north, and extends northwards into County Mayo and eastwards into parts of County Roscommon.
Originally known as the Bermingham and North Galway Hounds, it was founded by Sir Dermot and Lady Molly Cusack-Smith in 1946. The hunt was handed over to a committee of landowners and keen hunting families on Lady Cusack-Smith’s retirement and is now known as the North Galway Foxhounds A man wins an on-the-spot bet by remaining on a horse, while seated backwards and jumping over a steep, tricky hedge A housing estate with some houses boarded up outside the town of Ballaghadereen. A massive surplus of housing, combined with the late-2000s recession, resulted in many estates being abandoned, unoccupied, partially occupied or uncompleted. In 2010 there were more than 600 so-called ghost estates in Ireland, and a government agency report estimated the number of empty houses in Ireland at greater than 300,000. The report for 2015 listed the number of vacant homes in unfinished estates to be 2,542 John Snee, 97, of the IRA East Mayo Brigade Flying Column, outside Kilmainham jail in Dublin, close to the spot where the leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed. ‘I fought as a soldier against soldiers, not against women and children,’ he said. Snee spent 50 years as an exile in the US before returning to Ireland Young people in the Grand Canal during a warm spell in the summer. Despite health warnings and reports of a flesh-eating bug in the River Liffey and the Royal and Grand Canals of Dublin, many people carried on the old habit of bathing in Dublin’s canals A caravan drives into a storm in Delph
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