Photograph
Collection object
2002.0381
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 south edge of road of terrace of one storey cottages on the north side of the street, Hassett's Cross pub in distance extreme l. Bicycle (front wheel) leaning against first cottage on r., the next whitewashed, some plaster missing, door open, boy sitting on doorstep, boy and girl on footpath outside next, most of the slates of the fifth missing. Motor car approaching l. Wooden electricity / light poles on l. footpath only. Cracked concrete road surface patched with tarmacadam across foreground. Margin around, widest below, with title and date white on black strip stuck on, 9 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 - 15.
Michael Cowhey (photographer)