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Ireland at War: Photos from the Sean Sexton Collection

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
February / March 2017

February 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment

These rare photos from the Sean Sexton Collection chronicle the years of terror following the Rising when the Irish were caught up in the War of Independence and the Civil War.You can read all you want of Irish history, but photographs give us a window to the past that words can’t. For the centenary of the Easter Rising, London’s Photographer’s Gallery put together an ambitious … [Read more...] about Ireland at War: Photos from the Sean Sexton Collection

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