Book of photographs sheds light on days gone by

A NEW book which uses lovingly-taken and carefully-kept photographs to evoke memories of bygone times will be launched tonight.

The Light of Other Days is a collection of pictures by photographer and retired RTÉ cameraman Donal Wylde and has been described as “a thought-provoking, beautiful and captivating photographic record” of life in Tipperary during the 1960s and 1970s.

Formerly a photographer with the Clonmel-based The Nationalist newspaper, Mr Wylde has assembled a collection of images from town and county life at a time when the area was at its most diverse economically, politically and socially.