Running until Feburary next year, Island Life is an exhibition of photographs featuring images of daily life on the islands around the coast of Ireland from the late nineteenth century onwards. It also includes images of some non-coastal islands. The images span roughly a hundred years, starting in the late nineteenth century. They document a century of change.

The photos come from the well- known Lawrence Collection, that unique record of life in Ireland at the turn of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries, also from the Diggin Collection and from the camera of the great Colman Doyle. While islands from all around the coast are included, the daily lives of the people on Achill Island, Oileáin Árainn, Valentia and Na Blascaodaí feature prominently.

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