If ever you go to Dublin town
abevan July 2nd, 2009
If ever you go to Dublin town, an exhibition of evocative photographs by Elinor Wiltshire chronicling Dubliners as they worked, played, shopped and prayed during the 1950s and 1960s, opens at the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar, Dublin.
Born in Limerick, Elinor Wiltshire (nee O’Brien) founded the Green Studios on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, with her husband Reginald Wiltshire in the 1950s. Over a period of about fifteen years, using a Rolleiflex camera, Elinor Wiltshire captured images of a changing city and its people.
Her photographs reveal an artist’s eye for the beauty that exists in everyday life; shoppers in Cumberland Street’s busy second-hand market (see photo); summer outings on Sandymount Strand; exuberant scenes of All Ireland Football Finals fans at railway stations; Corpus Christi processions through the city of Dublin.
The exhibition will continue in the National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Sq, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 until October 2009.
Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm; Saturday: 10am – 2pm.
Admission is free.
Contact Details: Tel: +35316030378; Email: photoarchive@nli.ie
Photograph courtesy of the NLI
