When historian Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley got involved with a photographic project during the dark days of covid back in 2020, she couldn’t have foreseen the phenomenon it would become.
Old Ireland in Colour, a collection of historical colourised images of Irish life, became a publishing sensation, notching up sales in excess of €1 million, and it is now on its third volume. The project is the brainchild of academic John Breslin, who brought Buckley on board to provide historical context for the images.
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