These 87 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in
Dublin in 1963/5 are spontaneous images of Dublin and Dubliners in
all areas of the city, a street odyssey reflecting a cross section
of the people, their habits and behaviour, ten years before Ireland
joined the European Union and the wider world. The text on facing
pages is composed of social commentary gleaned from a posting of
each of the book's photographs on Dublin social media platform Down
Memory Lane, eliciting a flood of 70,000 responses during 2020.
These photographs of Dublin and Dubliners in 1963 have pertinent
social and historical value as attested by their placement in
numerous US Universities and museums. The text offers a novel way
of understanding and appreciating a full gamut of Dublin
personalities through their reactions to the posting of these
photographs during the current pandemic. The responses ranged from
wonder and incredulity to heated derision, offset by the hilarity
that characterize Dubliners. The richness of the commentary will be
of interest to any Irish person curious to glimpse Dublin life in
the '60s and to gauge the reactions of Dubliners today.
MacSweeney's work partakes of the tradition of reportage by Walker
Evans, Cartier Bresson, Robert Frank and Richard Avendon, to whom
he was apprenticed in Paris during the late fifties.
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