Photograph
Collection object
2002.0380
Print H. 13.3 W. 20.2 Sheet H. 16.6 W. 21.5
Photograph, b/w, print. Sexton St. North, Limerick, July 1971, by Michael Cowhey. View from r. side of road beyond Quiltys pub towards city, two end of terrace one storey cottages l., two girls, one holding a doll, outside, then road to l., then plastered boundary wall, then two two storey houses, then one storey pub. On r., long terrace of one storey cottages, mature trees beyond end of terrace, the first two cottages roofless and blocked up. Two vans parked l. outside pub, van, motor cars and cyclist moving in distance. Wooden electricity / light poles on l. footpath only. Cracked concrete road surface patched with tarmacadam up centre. Margin around, widest below, with title and date white on black strip stuck on, 10 handwritten in black to r. R/ Rubber stamped in bottom r. corner, triangle enclosing Cowhey & McMahon / Ballinacurra / Limerick / (061) 46231. In blue biro centre, Treaty - 14.
Michael Cowhey (photographer)