Mathew Brady

Weekly Comment: Irishman Matthew Brady & the Founding of American Photography

By Tom Deignan
August 19, 2016

August 19, 2016 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/tom-deignan/">Tom Deignan</a><br/>August 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

Today is World Photo Day, celebrated for the 177th anniversary of the French Academy of Sciences announced the invention of the daguerrotype. This article has been excerpted and adapted from "Portraits of a Nation at War" (October / November 2013). _______________ Thanks to Mathew Brady and his team of photographers – including Irish immigrant Timothy O’Sullivan and Scottish … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Irishman Matthew Brady & the Founding of American Photography

Mathew Brady’s Irish Mystery

By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor
October / November 2015

October 1, 2015 by </a> By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2015-archive/october-november-2015/">October / November 2015</a> Leave a Comment

In August, a sign in Johnsburg, New York that claimed to mark the birthplace of acclaimed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady went missing. But in addition to sparking a search for the sign itself, its absence sent historians into a quest to find the true birthplace of Brady, eventually discovering he was probably born in Ireland. While there is no doubt that Brady, often cited … [Read more...] about Mathew Brady’s Irish Mystery

September 27, 2000

Thirty-three years after the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses was released, Ireland finally decided to lift the ban on the film. Many consider Joyce’s great novel to be “unfilmable.” However, Joseph Strick, an idealistic American director, decided to take up the project. His adaptation, much like the book, drew much controversy. Many scenes were cut at its screening at the Cannes Film Festival. In Ireland, film censors unilaterally banned the film saying that it was “subversive to public morality.” Ulysses was the second film to have the ban lifted, following Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1999.

Weekly Comment: Irishman Matthew Brady & the Founding of American Photography

Mathew Brady’s Irish Mystery

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