Stunning photography exhibition mixes War of Independence veterans with Syrian refugees
Seamus Murphy decided to combine his images of Irish people who lived through traumatic times with recent photographs of refugees who ve fled their homeland
Part of the Seamus Murphy exhibition in Thurles, L-R: Dan Bally Keating and John Ryan.
Tue, 05 Jan, 2021 - 20:00
Marjorie Brennan
Seamus Murphy is no stranger to the unexpected, having worked in war zones from Gaza to Syria and covered assignments such as the drug wars in Mexico and the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. The Irish photographer, however, wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when he knocked on the door of John Ryan’s home in Co Tipperary. It was 1998, and Murphy was there to photograph Ryan, then 105-years-old, as part of a project documenting IRA veterans from the War of Independence.