Richard Fitzgerald

Dark Ireland: Images of a Lost World

By Richard Fitzgerald, Contributor
October / November 2019

October 1, 2019 by </a> By Richard Fitzgerald, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2019-archive/october-november-2019/">October / November 2019</a> Leave a Comment

The following is an extract from the foreword to Richard Fitzgerald’s stunning book of photographs taken in Ireland over the past 45 years. For more than forty years I have travelled the length and breadth of the land recording the beauty of Ireland and its people. I love the ever-changing light and the shadows creeping across the fern-covered hills; the shafts of … [Read more...] about Dark Ireland: Images of a Lost World

Photo Essay:
Dreams of the Old Country

By Richard Fitzgerald, Contributor
October / November 2014

September 17, 2014 by </a> By Richard Fitzgerald, Contributor<br/></a><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2014-archive/october-november-2014/">October / November 2014</a> 1 Comment

The haunting distinctive photographs of emigrant Richard Fitzgerald When I began taking photographs of Ireland some forty years ago I felt an immediate connection with Irish emigrants in America, the thousands of people who had left the old country to begin a new life in Boston and New York. The landscape back home was dotted with abandoned stone cottages and derelict … [Read more...] about Photo Essay:
Dreams of the Old Country

November 29, 1993

The Northern Ireland peace process took another momentous step forward on this day in 1993 by appointing ten members onto an executive power-sharing board under the leadership of David Trimble. Furthermore, the British and Irish governments began making constitutional changes that were laid down in the Good Friday Agreement. Martin McGuinness, former IRA member, was appointed minister of schools in Ulster, which caused much controversy amongst some unionist supporters.

Dark Ireland: Images of a Lost World

Photo Essay:
Dreams of the Old Country

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