Old Ireland in Colour: Second instalment gives a fresh look at the past

It was the biggest book in Ireland last year, so it isn't surprising that dozens of more old photographs have been given the colour treatment for a follow-up

Old Ireland In Colour 2 has just been published.

It was the publishing sensation of 2020, selling 50,000 copies in ten weeks, and the only Irish book last year to have sales worth over €1m, yet the two people behind it haven’t even met in real life. 

Old Ireland in Colour is a collection of historical colourised images of Irish life, the result of a collaboration between NUIG academic John Breslin and historian Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley.