Gerard Long reflects on the legacy of avid collector Joseph Holloway whose unflagging passion continues to enrich the study of Dublin’s cultural history
Dr Patrick Henchy, who began his career in the National Library of Ireland in 1941, wrote that ‘One of my first assignments in work outside the Library was to arrange for the removal of the gift of Joseph Holloway, the Dublin architect and renowned theatre first-nighter and diarist, who donated his huge collection of diaries and manuscripts to the Library. He was a bachelor who lived at 21 Northumberland Road, and, indeed, there was scant room for even one person in that house, so crowded was it with his books and volumes of diaries. I still have a vivid picture of Joseph Holloway, tall, elderly, black hard hat, drooping moustache and untidy overcoat. He didn’t talk much, but this did not matter as he had said it all in his diaries.1
Stephanie McBride reflects on the extraordinary life’s work of Arthur Fields, the last of the street photographers
All around the globe, conflicts have and continue to shape the land and their inhabitants’; Elizabeth Magill explores the flipside of the buccolic in conversation with Brian McAvera.