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Irish Photography Exhibit

A Photo Album of Ireland

12/23/16  MH

http://eusa.org/exhibition/a-photo-album-of-ireland/

More than 120 photographs covering over 160 years are included in the new exhibit, “A Photo Album of Ireland,” at the Sioux City Public Museum.  The exhibit is part of an ongoing effort to build a democratic archive of ordinary and extraordinary histories of Irish private and public life.  Exhibit curator Trish Lambe is with the Gallery of Photography in Dublin, Ireland.  Siouxland Public Media’s Mary Hartnett took a tour of the exhibit with Lambe.

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In: “This daguerreotype here is of Mary Shackleton . . . . “

Out: “ . . . the extraordinary nature of ordinary lives.”

That was Trish Lambe, the curator of the Sioux City Public Museum exhibit, “A Photo Album of Ireland.” She spoke with Siouxland Public Media’s Mary Hartnett.   The exhibit will be on display through January 8th.  You can see the photos online at  siouxcitymuseum.org.

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