Looking back in time with Dennis Dinneen's pictures

Dennis Dinneen’s pictures of people in Muskerry are at last being regarded as an invaluable archive, writes Marjorie Brennan

WHEN photographer David J Moore was trawling through the negatives of Dennis Dinneen, he knew what he had was special.

“As soon as I saw them, I knew we had something different on our hands. A lot of it is reminiscent of studio portrait photographers like Seydou Keïta and Mike Disfarmer and even the work of Diane Arbus. I hadn’t seen anything like that in an Irish context before.”