Photo: Good Friday, North Inner City, Dublin 1984 (cropped. full image below)
Four decades of work by the Irish photographer whose dignified images, according to his former editor Colm Tóibín, offer ‘a hesitant window into the soul’
Look of the Irish: the communities captured by Tony O’Shea – in pictures
All images by Tony O’Shea
The Light of Day is a photobook retrospective of Tony O’Shea’s work, spanning four decades from 1979 to 2019 was published on 13 November by RRB Photobooks and the Gallery of Photography Ireland
27 October 2020 | The Guardian
Painted pony, Smithfield, Dublin, 1989

Good Friday, Seán McDermott Street, Dublin 1983/84



Good Friday, North Inner City, Dublin 1984\



Divorce referendum protest at the GPO, Dublin, 1986



Delivering fuel, North Inner City, Dublin, 1987



Dublin Bus, 1989



Welcoming home the Irish team after reaching the quarter-finals of Italia ’90, Dublin, 1990



Christmas Turkey Market, Mary’s Lane, Dublin 1991



Reopening of crossing on the Leitrim-Fermanagh border, 1993



Day of action to reopen a border road closed by British security forces near Kiltyclogher, County Leitrim 1993



25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Derry 1997


