Photograph

Collection object


2002.0382
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 centre of road of terrace of one storey cottages on the north side of the street, Hassett's Cross pub in distance l. First cottage whitewashed, some plaster missing, door open, boy sitting on doorstep, boy and girl on footpath outside sixth, most of the slates of the fifth missing. Man approaching in distance, motor cars parked in distance. Terrace of south side of srteet middle distance l. Wooden electricity / light poles on l. footpath only. Cracked concrete road surface patched with tarmacadam across foreground to l. distance. Margin around, widest below, with title and date white on black strip stuck on, 8 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 - 17, upside down.


Michael Cowhey (photographer)