{"id":311116,"date":"2026-02-22T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311116\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:54:09","slug":"mary-osullivan-interviews-photographer-simona-doyle-for-my-favourite-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311116\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary O&#8217;Sullivan interviews photographer Simona Doyle for my favourite room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nUnlike most downsizers, Italian-born Simona Doyle opted to buy a home with a spiral staircase, but then Simona has done a lot of things differently, including taking up three new passions \u2013 travel, photography and art\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Italian-born photographer\/artist Simona Doyle in the kitchen of her period mews in south county Dublin. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SIMONA DOYLE ROOM 1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Italian-born photographer\/artist Simona Doyle in the kitchen of her period mews in south county Dublin. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The living room in Simona Doyle\u2019s period home is like the rest of the house \u2013 tastefully and stylishly furnished. Everything is subtle so it\u2019s only when Simona herself points out the bases of her two black and white table lamps that it becomes apparent that they each depict the map of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And that\u2019s entirely fitting. Simona, a photographer and artist, has devoted long periods of the last 10 years to travelling the world. More recently she\u2019s concentrated on Africa, specifically the Omo River in Ethiopia. Last year she published a spectacular art book called Marked by the River which records the daily lives, traditions and rituals of five tribes \u2013 the Mursi, Karo, Daasanech, Hamar and Aari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike most downsizers, Italian-born Simona Doyle opted to buy a home with a spiral staircase, but then Simona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,6361,6360],"class_list":{"0":"post-311116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-life-magazine","17":"tag-mary-osullivan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}