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Hide That Can (Hardcover)

by Deirdre O'Callaghan (Author), Bono (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Trolley (1 Jan 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 095420798X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954207984
  • Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 20.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 818,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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One hundred years ago, Lord Rowton took it into his head to build a hostel. Being a peer of the realm the grandiose came easily to him, and in 1905 the massive, even forbidding, red-brick edifice arose in Camden Town in London, filled with 382 beds for impoverished manual labourers. Clean sheets, washing facilities and nourishing food were to be provided for the inmates. In fact the great building, Arlington House, was designed to be, and quickly became billets for the destitute Irish navvies who crossed the sea to find work in the capital. Today the Irish connection has not gone; almost 70 per cent of residents are Irish, and although they are equally poor, few of them work or labour - most are alcoholics. A picture of Arlington House in the past can be found in George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London". It is not pleasant. The photographer Deirdre O'Callaghan has brought together four years' work at the refuge, her record of the despair, humour and hope on the faces of the residents, a gallery of a largely expatriate community at odds with the world outside. O'Callaghan's pictures, along with Bono's text also record the work of the hostel itself in trying to reintegrate the residents into that world, photographs of clarity and wonder taken during trips to Ireland for the inmates. Some have lived at Arlington House for 30 years; many have not seen their families for as long.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A photographic diary at Arlington..., 7 Oct 2002
'Hide That Can' highlights in a genuinely moving way the politics of displacement and poverty. The book is a photographic portrait of a group of Irish migrant labourers, now hostel dwellers in London, who were deprived at the end of their working life of the opportunity to return to their homeland. The Foreword states, 'These faces are a kind of history lesson' to us all.
This beautifully and intelligently-crafted book is such a tribute to Arlington House hostel and its residents. The sumptuous colour photographs and text reveal sufficient detail to break your heart. Deirdre O'Callaghan's creativity, her 'seeing eye', and her very special empathy with her subjects, are what documentary photography at its best is all about. At the end of her long-term involvement with these men, she has produced (with their collaboration) a very human book, with a heartbeat that is evident throughout.
The book's production also is exquisite. If you are a collector of fine books, and want a modern masterpiece, this is it. If you love photography, if you love humanity, then buy this book. It is the very finest book I have purchased all year, and I recommend it unreservedly.
M. Paterson Peralta.
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