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jumpers

Darragh Byrne writes:

A video I made about Ireland at Christmas in 2013- the shopping, the drinking, the jumpers, the lights, the homeless and the next morning with poem by Patrick Kavanagh ‘A Christmas Childhood’. It is read by Eoghan O’Drisceoil who himself spent a time homeless but has recently published two collections of poetry. This film is about a country re discovering simple childhood pleasures at this time of year. But mostly it is about Christmas Jumpers…

A rarely seen (by us) image of Patrick Kavanagh getting his Sam Spade on in – possibly – the stairwell of his top flat on Pembroke Road, Dublin.

He got it off Daft.

Taken for a photo essay entitled ‘A Day in Dublin, in Lilliput magazine by Bill Brandt, August 1947.

More Brandt in Dublin here: Brand New Retro