There are some great images of local interest in this Netherlands photographic archive. They give a fascinating glimpse of how the Dutch have seen us down through the years. From the home of William III, we can see a September 1690 pamphlet account of his military campaign in Ireland, including the siege of Derry and the Battle of the Boyne, right through to a not-so-appreciative account of the men of Orange to be found in a newspaper cartoon at the height …
The Irish News photo coverage of the third arrest at Thursday’s RNU protest at Alliance HQ was a tale of two halves – while they decided to hide the identities of the PSNI officers arresting a 16 year old, they didn’t give that same protection to the arrested youth. When UTV covered this story (TV coverage available via link), before the Irish News would have gone to press, they protected the identity of the minor along with those of the …
Great set of colour photographs from Ireland in the 1920s. Chris has them marked up as National Geographic items. Extraordinary to see a generation of Irish people in colour whom many of us will only have seen in black and white, Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
A mosaic of photographs to sign off this year. I’ve chosen them for a variety of reasons primarily because i like them and in the case of bottom left to remember a friend lost this year. By and large i have enjoyed my blogging here on slugger though the tedious whataboutery and shooting the messenger is…..well…… tedious. Thanks to Mick and Paul for having faith in me and giving me slugger as a platform to perhaps educate, entertain and illustrate …
It’d be remiss of me not to…..(and in the interest of balance it’s a dyptich) Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition …
