These photos were scanned by brandnewretro.ie : Highly recommend their archival work.

Peter Zoller is a German photographer with an evident love for Ireland. As well as these gorgeous pictures, he has done some beautiful nature and wildlife photography which is also available online. I thought these were gorgeous and full of warmth and life, so thought i’d share 🙂

by utauloids

21 comments

  2. I’d love to see a modern Dublin Bus with the old livery

  3. Takes me right back to that time. I’m not a Dub but would have spent many a day down there in 1997 with my then girlfriend. What a time that was to be young and carefree.

    Just FYI the search box is weirdly placed at the bottom on the [brandnewretro.ie](http://brandnewretro.ie) site mentioned in the OP.

  4. Ah…back when Bewley’s had character and a reasonably priced full Irish.

  6. Should never have taken the cobbles off Grafton Street

  8. The one thing I’m noticing is way less clutter of signs. Dublin City Council has gone a bit mad on signage in the intervening years

  10. I must have killed that particular braincell in the years since but I just can’t recall College Green looking so clean.

    Also, the lack of visual pole pollution is remarkable. That same view down Westmoreland Street now looks awfully cluttered and messy with all sorts of poles, traffic signs, bollards etc.

  12. I miss the green buses, but it’s probably better yellow. No need to get run over by a camouflaged vehicle posing as shrubbery.

  13. Looks like photos you’d see in some secondary school French book.

  14. Looks really nice, surprisingly the architecture is quite impressive looking, not sure if it’s just it being a sunny day and those buildings being viewed on their own without the juxtaposition of horrible modern glass architecture right beside them, or it did actually have more character back then.

    Takes me back, getting the train up to the big smoke with the aul lady as a weaun. Dublin always seemed so big and grandiose to me back then, like stepping into a different world than me own in the west.

  18. So eerie to look back at photos from the last century, and realize everyone in them is dead 😢 rip

  19. I love how people are just spending time together with no heads in their phones and not walking around in their pajamas.

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