Kenneth O’Halloran is a photographer based in Dublin. He was born in the West of Ireland and is a graduate of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. He holds a Masters in Fine Art Photography from The University of Ulster, Belfast.

O’Halloran’s series The Handball Alley surveys the relics of a once vibrant chapter of Irish life. The ruins, mapped and photographed by O’Halloran, bear silent testimony to the passing of time and to the changing dynamics of rural communities.

Like the dolmens that John Montague offered as a metaphor for the old people of his childhood, these modern ruins are liminal structures, open- air theatres where the ghosts of a lost civilisation linger. This series was exhibited as part of O’Halloran’s exhibition Modern Ruins and Other Stories at Gallery of Photography Ireland and at Glór Ennis in 2018.