Photograph
Collection object
2002.0369
Print H. 13.3 W. 20.2 Sheet H. 16.6 W. 21.5
Photograph, b/w, print. Old Dominick St, Limerick, July 1971, by Michael Cowhey. View from Dominick St northwestwards along section of street with high stone wall on each side, no footpath on r. side of road, the wall there topped with barbed wire supported on outward curving brackets, boundary wall of Villiers Alms Houses l., with two blocked up doorways. Corner to Verdant Place in distance, pile of rubble on vacant ground at junction. Man on bicycle approaching in distance, woman walking away beside to r., pedestrian on footpath at junction. Stone wall and houses with dormer windows beyond vacant site, Clare hills in distance. Concrete road surface up centre. Margin around, widest below, with title white on blue strip stuck on, 4 after title, date on separate strip to r. R/ Rubber stamped in bottom r. corner, triangle enclosing Cowhey & McMahon / Ballinacurra / Limerick / (061) 46231. In blue biro centre, Island 8 film 3 / no 10, title in pencil above and at bottom l. in pencil, 4 in circle.
Michael Cowhey (photographer)