Book review: Recapturing over 120 of John Hinde's scenic snaps of Ireland

Anne Lucey savours John Hinde's colourful vision of Ireland

More than 120 scenes from 1950s and 1960s Ireland have been recaptured in ‘In Hinde-Sight’ including secenes of Kinsale, Co Cork, and Glandore Lake and Kenmare Bay, Co Kerry.

SCENES that became the public face of Ireland have been “recaptured” in a new book which is the second by photographer Paul Kelly to follow the footsteps of John Hinde across landmarks set in glossy postcards over half a century ago..

Before the magic bus and the package holiday flight to the “costa”, John Hinde postcards “flying” between Ballybunion and Bundoran gave generations of Irish tantalising hints of what an Ireland in the sun, and indeed the sun itself might look like.