Free Public Talk on Monday July 1st @8pm - Another Centenary: Photographs of Ireland in 1913 from the Albert Kahn Collection by Dr Fidelma Mullane. Venue: Knightsbrook Hotel, Trim. This talk will offer you a wonderful insight into the story of one of the earliest collections of photographs taken in Ireland and the Boyne Valley exactly 100 years ago by two remarkable French women, Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon. The two young graduates recorded Irish life on their journey through Ireland from Galway to the Boyne Valley. The photographic expedition to Ireland was part of a world-wide project, financed by the wealthy banker and pacifist, Albert Kahn, that documented, through film and photography, aspects of cultures that were rapidly changing and disappearing. Dr Fidelma Mullane is a geographer specializing in research and conservation of vernacular buildings and objects. This talk is an action of the County Meath Heritage Plan and part of a series of events to coincide with The Boyne Valley in the Albert Kahn Collection (1913) Exhibition which runs in the Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda until the end of August.
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