The Irish: A Photohistory

by Sean Sexton and Christine Kinealy

The first Irish photographs date from 1840, a year after Louis Daguerre announced his discovery of the photographic process. In the century that followed, Ireland was to know tragedy and triumph, bitter struggle and agonized compromise. The Great Famine killed over a million Irish poor between 1846 and 1851, and forced an even greater number to flee the horrors of their homeland. In the following decades, Irish political life was dominated by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500290792
• ISBN13: 9780500290798
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.1" x 8.4"