New book of photographs provides a glimpse of life in 1960s Ireland

Alen MacWeeney's archive was recently acquired by UCC, and the New York-based photographer has just published a book of his images from the 1960s

A detail from Two Girls in Scarves, from the book,  My Dublin 1963, My Dubliners 2020, by Alen MacWeeney. See below for full picture. All photographs courtesy of  University College Cork.

Since he first picked up a camera in 1952, at the age of 13, Alen MacWeeney has reached the heights in the world of photography, with his work featuring in the collections of many prominent museums such as MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Ireland. 

However, the New York-based Dubliner recently experienced the thrill of connecting with a very different new audience when his partner, artist Pesya Altman, began posting pictures he had taken in his native city in the 1960s in an online forum.