The Emergency in Colour brings wartime Ireland to life in dramatic color.
Through extensive research, the photos presented here have been painstakingly hand-colorized by photographer John O’Byrne, showing what life on the island was like in extraordinary times.
There are over 200 photographs from across the country, many of which have never been published before, all of them accompanied by fascinating and accessible captions from historian Michael B. Barry.
Michael B. Barry is a historian and author of critically acclaimed books, and John O’Byrne is a professional photographer and colouriser. Their first collaboration, The Irish Civil War in Colour, was a bestseller and nominated for Best Irish-Published Book of the Year at the 2022 An Post Irish Book Awards.
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