{"id":3466,"date":"2025-08-16T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3466\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:16:14","slug":"timothy-murphy-memorial-photographic-competition-2025-and-old-photo-collection-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3466\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Murphy Memorial Photographic Competition 2025 and Old Photo Collection Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The late Timothy Murphy documented life in Castleisland over several decades from the 1960s onwards. \u00a9Photograph: John Reidy <\/strong>
\n\"\"No more than a hop, skip and jump from the modernity of Castleisland\u2019s Main Street there\u2019s something there to remind us of our built heritage. This old up and down sash window on the Spout Lane facing gable wall of Mossie Curtin\u2019s Paint and Wallpaper Shop is one of those reminders. \u00a9Photograph: John Reidy 13-8-2025<\/strong>
\n\"\"Con Curtin (left) pictured with Margaret Mitchell, Mike Mitchell, Joe Kearney and Jimmy Mitchell enjoying an impromptu tea-break during renovations at the former joinery workshop at Upper Main Street Castleisland. I didn\u2019t get the name of the obliging, posing workshop dog. \u00a9Photograph: John Reidy 7-9-2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

In conjunction with National Heritage Week, August 16th to 24th 2025 Castleisland Community Museum CLG is organising its second photographic competition in honour of the memory of Timothy Murphy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The competition will run beside the museum\u2019s request for members of the public to drop old photographs into its base at No. 42 Main Street \u2013 beside Tom McCarthy\u2019s Central Bar \u2013 as revealed here two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

The late Timothy Murphy captured and chronicled every aspect of life through the lens in Castleisland in his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Autumn Winter Theme<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Local photographers are being invited to submit images on the theme of autumn \/ winter in celebration of Ireland\u2019s cultural and natural heritage.<\/p>\n

The photographs will be taken from now until the end of December and local photographers will know that the time frame involved includes events that lend themselves to being captured digitally or on film \u2013 in colour or black and white.<\/p>\n

In fact black and white loving photographers are being encouraged with a special prize which will be included in the overall competition.<\/p>\n

Opportunities Abound<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photographic opportunities abound between here and the end of the year: An R\u00edocht AC\u2019s series of road races; the Patrick O\u2019Keeffe Traditional Music Festival; Halloween; Castleisland Horse Fair on November 1st; Whatever the weather brings; Christmas celebrations and \u2018The Blitz\u2019 are all included in the frame of time involved.<\/p>\n

Photographs of children or images with excessive use of Photoshop with artificially green grass and blue skies will not be accepted.<\/p>\n

Great Photography in the Black and White Era<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember that great photography lived and thrived in the black and white days and long before Photoshop arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n

The winning entry, colour or black and white, will be presented with the Timothy Murphy Photographic Memorial Shield and there will be two runners-up prizes and a juvenile award. Traditional camera or phone pictures will be accepted.<\/p>\n

Brief descriptions of the images and names will be required. The decision of the adjudication panel will be final and non negotiable.<\/p>\n

Images can be emailed from now on to: castleislandmuseum@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"You can contact The Maine Valley Post on\u2026 Anyone in The Maine Valley Post catchment<\/strong> area who would like to send us news and captioned photographs for inclusion can send them to: <\/strong>jreidy@mainevalleypost.com<\/strong> Queries about advertising and any other matters regarding The Maine Valley Post can also be sent to that <\/strong>address or just ring:\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>087 23 59 467.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Timothy Murphy documented life in Castleisland over several decades from the 1960s onwards. \u00a9Photograph: John Reidy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,3878,3874,3868,3875,3869,3873,3872,366,18,117,3876,3877,19,17,3871,5,3870,119],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-ballymacelligott","tag-brosna","tag-castleisland","tag-cordal","tag-county-kerry","tag-currans","tag-currow","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-farranfore","tag-firies","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-knocknagoshel","tag-news","tag-scartaglin","tag-sport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}