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This beautiful book has been lovingly put together over the past thirty years by one of Ireland's most celebrated photographers. As might be expected of the man whose photographs of Samuel Beckett brought him wide acclaimed, these are not formal portraits, but studies in moments and moods, penetrating behind the public faces to the essential nature of the man or woman within. Here, caught laughing and talking, sitting in quiet reverie, working at home or walking along the street, are the giants of Ireland's literary scene - Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, William Trevor, Dervla Murphy, Edna O'Brien, Benedict MacLaverty, Padriac Fiacc, Patrick McCabe, Neil Jordan... the list goes on. With them are reminders of the great writers of the past: the gravestones and former homes, now places of pilgrimage, of such writers as Brendan Behan, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and J.M. Synge. Including photographs of many of the Dublin bars and buildings that are literary landmarks, this book encapsulates the spirit of Irish creativity and throws fresh light on the writers mind. John Minihan, an artist in his own medium, has paid lasting tribute to the masters and mistresses of the written word, at a time when we are witnessing a new flowering of inspired Irish talent whose influence spans the world.
About the Author
John Minihan was born in Dublin but spent his childhood in Athy, Co. Kildare. At age of twelve he was brought to live in London, and he went on to become an apprentice photographer with the 'Daily Mail' and a photojournalist with the 'Evening Standard'. For thirty years he remained in London, returning every year to his hometown of Athy to record the people and their daily lives. This project was to become his book 'Shadows from the Pale,' published in 1996. Through out this time he was also photographing Irish writers, notably Samuel Beckett who formed the subject of a highly praised book published in 1995. John Minihan's work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the world, and he has been compared to Cartier-Bresson and Doisneau as a 'master of monochrome'. He now lives and works in Ireland. Derek Mohan is a poet and lives in Dublin.
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