EAN: 9788862087292

MARTIN PARR FROM THE POPE TO A FLAT WHITE - MAR...

Martin Parr has been taking photographs in Ireland for 40 years. His work covers many of the
most significant moments in Ireland's recent history  encompassing the Pope's visit in 1979 
when a third of the country's population attended Mass in Knock and Phoenix Park in Dublin  as
well as gay weddings and start-up companies in 2019. It is difficult to think of a country that
has changed so dramatically in this relatively short space of time. Parr lived in the West of
Ireland between 1980-82. He photographed traditional aspects of rural life  such as horse fairs
and dances  but also looked at the first hint of Ireland's new wealth in the shape of the
bungalows that were springing up everywhere  replacing more traditional dwellings. During
subsequent trips to Ireland he explored the new estates around Dublin and the introduction of
the first drive-through McDonald's. Parr also looked at the North and documented how  after the
Good Friday agreement  the Troubles became the focus of a new tourist boom. The final chapter
of this book portrays a contemporary Dublin where start-up companies are thriving  the docks
area is being gentrified and where icons of wealth and modernity - such as the flat white - can
be everywhere. Ireland has also now voted to allow both abortion and gay weddings  developments
that would have been unthinkable 40 years ago. The book includes an introduction by the
acclaimed journalist Fintan O'Toole.

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