{"id":63053,"date":"2025-09-14T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63053\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:48:09","slug":"a-city-that-has-vanished-yet-feels-strangely-familiar-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63053\/","title":{"rendered":"A city that has vanished yet feels strangely familiar \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Mick Brown was a teenager, he bought a camera and walked the streets of his native Dublin<\/a>, recording the events of the day with no particular purpose in mind. Fifty years later, Brown\u2019s curiosity and talent has just been rewarded with a solo exhibition in the Little Museum of Dublin<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The scale of recent changes is evident in Brown\u2019s remarkable collection of photographs<\/a>, and the exhibition, which is called The Days That Were In It, provides a photographic record of Dublin\u2019s street life \u2013 communities of people at work and play from 1960 to 1990. <\/p>\n

From the Iveagh Market to the Capitol Theatre, here is a Dublin that has vanished from view, yet still feels strangely familiar. Brown\u2019s photography offers a panoramic view of the capital \u2013 and of those days on empty streets where old ghosts meet. <\/p>\n

\"StSt Patrick’s Day Parade, Cuffe Street, Dublin, 1981. Photograph: Mick Brown \"StephensStephens Green Grafton Street, Dublin, circa 1980. Photograph: Mick Brown \"MarlboroughMarlborough Place, off Talbot Street, Dublin, 1975. Photograph: Mick Brown \"TheThe ‘Weigh In’, Bridgefoot Street, mid 1970s. Photograph: Mick Brown \"HelpingHelping with enquiries, Thomas Street – Bridgefoot Street, 1975. Photograph: Mick Brown \"StSt Patrick’s Day Parade, Cuffe Street, Dublin, 1981. Photograph: Mick Brown \"NewportNewport Street, Marrowbone Lane, Dublin, 1980s. Photograph: Mick Brown \"WaitingWaiting for Godot, Usher’s Quay, Dublin, 1969. Photograph: Mick Brown \"GardinerGardiner Street Middle, Dublin, 1969. Photograph: Mick Brown \" The Bright Lights, Princes Street, O’Connell Street, 1967. Photograph: Mick Brown <\/p>\n

The Days That Were in It is now on view in the Bernardo O\u2019Higgins Gallery, Little Museum of Dublin. Tickets at littlemuseum.ie<\/a> Trevor White is founder of the Little Museum of Dublin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Mick Brown was a teenager, he bought a camera and walked the streets of his native Dublin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,52,18,117,19,17,44620,2212],"class_list":{"0":"post-63053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-dublin","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-little-museum-of-dublin","19":"tag-weekendreview"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63053","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=63053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}