He was rubbish.
In fairness.
Rob Cross writes:
My colourised and restored c1914 Clonbrock (Dillon family) Collection photo featuring two little children bathing in Salthill Co. Galway. The children are George and Mary Mahon from Castlegar in County Galway.
Rob’s book The Colour Of Ireland is released in October but available to pre-order now.
For the day that’s in it.
Old Ireland in Colour writes:
On this day 104 years ago, the Easter Rising began. At 12:45pm, PH Pearse read out the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the GPO
Old Ireland In Colour has colourised, enhanced and restored photographs of the seven proclamation signatories – Thomas J. Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett – for today…
Meanwhile…
104 years ago, rebellion was simmering in Ireland …
And soon it would boil over to become the Easter Rising of 1916.
When it was all over, The Irish Times would call it:
“The Darkest Week In The History Of Dublin – An Orgie of fire and slaughter”#MOF1916 pic.twitter.com/SyfPIZiLN6— Mick O’Farrell (@MOF1916) April 23, 2020
Meanwhile….
https://t.co/mrfph6WJxq @broadsheet_ie re your piece this pm 'Sovereign and Indefeasible, here is Stephen Murphy 'Was it For This'
— Gemma (@wickedfairysad) April 24, 2020
Charles Stewart Parnell, circa 1875
The uncrowned king.
In all his glory.
Charles Stewart Parnell: our best picture of him yet!
Original via Pictorial press
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Rob Cross tweetz:
My restored and colourised photo of a bustling Thomas Street in the Dublin Liberties with Meath Street on the right.I would date the photo as early 1970s going by Ford Cortina Mk lll that features in the photo which was launched at the 1970 Earl’s Court Motor Show.
Colourised Photochrom postcards of daily life in colonial Tunisia at the end of the 19th century entitled “Views of Architecture and People in Tunisia” from the catalog of the US Library of Congress.
Above: a street in Kairwan in 1899; Porte Française, Tunis; Bedouin woman; Arab men; Souc-el-Trouk, Tunis; crowds gather around a snake charmer; Private drawing room, Kasr-el-Said; Cathedral of St. Louis, Carthage and a family of Bedouin beggars, Tunis.
Australian photographer Jane Long’s digitally restored, coloured and subverted takes on the historic glass plate portraits of Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte (currently preserved at the Costică Acsinte Archive).
Charlie Chaplin, aged 27 in 1916.
Or the result of a Cillian Murphy/James Nesbitt telepod splicing accident?
(Original photo colourised by Redditor BenAffleckIsAnOkActor)
MORE: 20 Historic Black and White Photos Colorized (Twisted Sifter)
(h/t: The Third Man)
