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War of Independence in colour: Tadhg Barry in goal at Croke Park
Matt Loughrey s My Colorful Past project bridges the gap between history and art , using digital techniques to add colour to monochrome images.
• 9 Apr 2021
Matt Loughrey s My Colorful Past project bridges the gap between history and art , using digital techniques to add colour to monochrome images. This week he turns his attention to a photo from the RTE Photographic Archive s Cashman Collection, showing Alderman Tadhg Barry, of the Cork Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in 1920. He is holding a hurley standing in goal at Croke Park.
Barry became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in 1910 and joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913. He marched to Macroom, Cork, to fight in the Easter Rising 1916. Barry was an Alderman representing Sinn Féin for Cork and a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
War of Independence in colour: women and children protest at Mountjoy
Matt Loughrey s My Colorful Past project bridges the gap between history and art , using digital techniques to add colour to monochrome images.
• 11 Feb 2021
Matt Loughrey s My Colorful Past project bridges the gap between history and art , using digital techniques to add colour to monochrome images. This week he s applied his skills to this photograph by Joseph Cashman from the Cashman Collection in the RTE Photographic Archive. It shows women and children gathering outside Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, in support of the prisoners on hunger strike in 1921. A woman in the centre of the shot is holding a crucifix. To the left of the woman there is a small boy holding a candle.