Photographs of Irish Civil War colourised in new book

One of the photographs featured in 'The Irish Civil War in Colour' shows the senior Provisional Government Army command in Limerick in 1922, including General Eoin O’Duffy fourth from left; centre, cigarette in hand, Commandant-General Michael Brennan; next right, Commandant-General Fionán Lynch, TD. Pictures: Gillbooks.ie

Photographer John O’Byrne has landed a job many children would dream of: Colouring in pictures.

Mr O’Byrne has spent more than a year colourising black and white photographs for a new book, The Irish Civil War in Colour.