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Book review: Old Ireland in Colour (John BRESLIN & Sarah-Anne BUCKLEY)

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Book review: Old Ireland in Colour
by Allan LEONARD
14 March 2021

Old Ireland in Colour is an ongoing project of colourising black and white images by photographers in Ireland in the late 19th to early 20th century. The catalyst was John Breslin working on colourising some photos of his grandparents, when he discovered an automated system called DeOldify. He looked for more images to colourise, starting with old photographs of NUI Galway, then the Galway/Connemara area, and then of Ireland as a whole.

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Book review: A Pocket History of Northern Ireland (Richard KILLEEN)

Book review: A Pocket History of Northern Ireland (Richard KILLEEN)
by Allan LEONARD
29 December 2020

Occasionally I am approached for an image to be used in a book publication. Recently, this was for one that I made of a mural celebrating the television series, Derry Girls. Disclosure: I granted permission, with payment, for the image in A Pocket History of Northern Ireland, by Richard Killeen and published by Gill Books.

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For Northern Ireland: Parity of esteem and reconciliation

Professor Peter SHIRLOW (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool). Lecture: For Northern Ireland: Parity of Esteem and Reconciliation. Feile Festival. St Mary's University College, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster

For Northern Ireland: Parity of esteem and reconciliation
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
1 August 2019

As part of the 31st annual Féile festival, Jim Gibney (a member of the Féile Debates and Discussions Committee) welcomed the audience of a couple dozen attendees of a panel discussion on what parity of esteem, reconciliation, and mutual respect means from those who are pro-Union. The panellists were Professor Peter Shirlow (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool), Dr James Wilson (Initiative for Civic Space), Alison Grundle (Initiative for Civic Space), and Terry Wright (a civic unionist commentator).

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Book review: The Colour of Time (Dan JONES & Marina AMARAL)

Book review: The Colour of Time (Dan JONES & Marina AMARAL)
by Allan LEONARD
26 May 2019

Released in hardcover in August 2018 and now available in paperback, The Colour of Time, by historian Dan Jones and artist Marina Amaral, is a collection of 200 colourised photographs taken between 1850 and 1960. With accompanying extended captions, this is a visually rewarding overview of personalities and major moments in world history, from the Crimean War to the space age.

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Ephemera to direct our future: Introduction to the Peter Moloney Collection

Poster 1683. (c) Peter MOLONEY @PeterMoloneyCol

Ephemera to direct our future: Introduction to the Peter Moloney Collection
by Allan LEONARD
10 April 2018

Peter Moloney, who collected Troubles-related ephemera for over 50 years, presented a personal lecture on how it began, why he decided to donate it all to the Tower Museum, and how he’ll keep on collecting.

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Reflected Lives: Broadening the canvas of the past

Reflected Lives: Broadening the canvas of the past
An oral history project at a Belfast interface
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
10 April 2018

Joe O’Donnell (Strategic Director, Belfast Interface Project) told the audience that the auspicious date for today’s exhibition launch was no accident. With reference to the much publicised conference at Queen’s University Belfast, featuring key political figures behind the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, O’Donnell said, “They’ll be talking about you”, the participants of the oral history project, Reflected Lives.

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Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society

Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
22 January 2018

Twenty and two years in the making, the Linen Hall Library launched its website, Divided Society, which features documentary material in its Northern Ireland Political Collection, of the peace process during the 1990s, with over 500 journal titles available.

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Photo Detectives: An exhibition of community-researched Irish photo history

Photo Detectives exhibition. National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

Photo Detectives: An exhibition of community-researched Irish photo history
by Allan LEONARD
6 January 2018

Photo Detectives is an exhibition by the National Library of Ireland (NLI) at its National Photographic Archive site in Dublin, of a set of archive images that online Flickr users have assisted with research and providing illuminating further information.

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Mr Turner’s apples

Diseased apples (1936-36). Turner, Belfast. Order 7186 = box, ladder, shed, apples. T3395/4HP/81-113 (alt. T16/297). Allison Collection, PRONI, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Mr Turner’s apples
by Allan LEONARD
27 September 2017

The Allison Collection held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) consists of about 1,550 photographs and 34 volumes from Allison Photographic Studios between circa 1900 and 1950. The studios were established by Herbert Thackwray Allison, who came to Ireland in 1881 with his brother. After starting in Belfast, they expanded with county branches in Dundalk, Armagh, Newry, and Warrenpoint. His son, Herbert Thackwray Jr, ended up managing the Armagh studio in 1903, where he remained for almost 50 years; his father ran the Newry and Warrenpoint studies.

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Exhibition launch: “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” @TheLinenHall

Divided Society: Northern Ireland 1990-1998. Exhibition launch: "We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles", Divided Society project, Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster

Exhibition launch: “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” @TheLinenHall
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
2 August 2017

The Linen Hall Library has presented the first of two exhibitions of its Divided Society digitisation and outreach project. “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” contains artwork, imagery, ephemera, and oral history extracts from firsthand accounts of individual experiences.

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Everywhere is different but nevertheless is not unrecognisable

Queen’s Bridge, Belfast: 1888 & 2014.

Everywhere is different but nevertheless is not unrecognisable
by Allan LEONARD
25 April 2017

Of the treasure trove of prints and negatives held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), a relatively small selection of about 2,500 images are available to view on Flickr. This consists of three collections: the Allison Photographic Collection, the Cooper Photographic Collection, and a PRONI-created collection of merged images, which they called ‘Then & Now’.

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