Journal
Research-led articles, essays and notes on historical photography, archives, manuscripts, ephemera, Swedish material, provenance and collection ethics.
Florence Austral at the Dublin Gaiety, 1939: A Wagnerian Voice at the End of an Era
A 1939 Gaiety programme records Florence Austral, Dublin opera in the first wartime winter, and the businesses printed around the stage.
Read article →Research Essay · Irish Postal & Family HistoryNew York to Blackrock, 1906–1907: The Power Family Postcards and an Irish Atlantic Correspondence
Three New York picture postcards, an Edwardian Blackrock address and the family messages that crossed the Atlantic.
Read article →Research Essay · Irish Medical & Social HistoryBaggot Street Hospital, 1904: Richard Atkinson Stoney and the Working Life of Dublin Surgery
A Dublin hospital, an early-career surgeon, contemporary medical research and the original diary that records his working year.
Read article →Research Essay · Irish Photographic & Social HistorySynge Street, Dublin, in 1946: A School Photograph and the City Behind It
A dated school portrait, Keogh Brothers' 1941 negatives in the National Library, and the educational world of post-war Dublin.
Read article →Research Essay · Swedish Historical PhotographyPhotographers of Nineteenth-Century Gothenburg: Studios, Portraits and a Changing City
From Aron Jonason’s portrait studios to Axel Lindahl’s city views: the photographic businesses that documented a changing port.
Research Essay · Irish PhotographyLauder Brothers of Dublin: Victorian Portraits from Sackville Street to Westmoreland Street
The Dublin portrait studios of the Lauder family, their commercial history and surviving Victorian photographs.
Read article →Research Essay · SwedenWiktor Emil Rylander and the Visual History of Swedish Beekeeping
From Biodlarnas fickkalender and the early Swedish beekeeping press to Falun, Göteborg / Bohus and Dalarna: what an intact album reveals about Rylander and organised biodling.
Read article →Research Essay · Private ArchivesThe Meyerhof Family Archive: A German-Jewish Family Between Berlin, the Mediterranean and Argentina
A coherent German-Jewish family archive connects Berlin, Mediterranean travel, the S.S. Tel Aviv, scientific work and the practical pressures of migration in 1938.
Read article → Journal EssayThe Torch Theatre, Capel Street: A Brief Dublin Stage
Opened in 1935 in a former trades hall, the Torch occupied a small but distinctive place in Dublin theatre — preserved today through programmes, archives and the building itself.
Read article → Journal EssayThe Integrity of Family Photographic Archives
On preserving albums and coherent archives intact, with reflections on the Meyerhof archive and the human cost of breaking context.
Read article → Journal EssayLucy Carr Shaw: From the Stage to the Page
A dated ownership inscription in a Mark Twain volume opens a window onto the Dublin-born actress, singer, writer and translator.
Read article → Research EssayWilliam Lawrence, Robert French and the Great Dublin Studios
A research-led introduction to nineteenth-century Irish photography, major Dublin studios and why studio imprints matter.
Read article → Research EssayVictorian Dublin Photographers: The Great Studios of 19th-Century Irish Photography
A research-led guide to the studios, photographers and commercial networks that made Victorian Dublin a major centre of Irish photography.
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