Photo Museum Ireland 31st August at 7pm

Admission free, all welcome

Historian Dr. Orla Fitzpatrick will address social change in Ireland, articulated in particular through the history of social portraiture and vernacular photography in the late 19th and early 20th Century.

Dr Orla Fitzpatrick is one of Ireland’s leading photographic historians. She studied History of Design and Material Culture at the National College of Art & Design (NCAD) Dublin and has a PhD in photographic history from Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. She was born and lives in Dublin and has worked as a librarian in various cultural institutions including the National Library of Ireland’s Photographic Archive. She teaches the history of photography and visual culture at NCAD and is the Librarian for the National Museum of Ireland.

This programme is being supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media as part of the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum scheme.

Banner image: Augusta Crofton outside the Collodion House, Mote Park, Roscommon, 1865 Courtesy Clonbrock Collection, CLON21,National Library of Ireland