David Davison looks at the photographs in the last chapter of the National Library of Ireland’s recent digitisation project
Children clambering among the boughs of a blossom tree in St Stephen’s Green in 1964 is one of a series of photographs of local Dublin life that concludes an ambitious project initiated by the National Library of Ireland in 2007. The concept being, the digitisation of a selection of images representing life in all thirty-two counties from the earliest days of photography to the late 20th century.