{"id":392907,"date":"2026-04-11T07:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:08:29","slug":"liam-collins-photographic-treasure-trove-took-me-back-to-the-coarse-risky-and-ungracious-dublin-of-the-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392907\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Collins: Photographic treasure trove took me back to the \u2018coarse, risky and ungracious\u2019 Dublin of the 1950s"},"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\">Nevill Johnson\u2019s images of Dublin in the 1950s paint a vivid picture of the capital before a lifetime of change\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two women chat in Parnell Street, in Dublin's north inner city. Photo: Nevill Johnson\/RT\u00c9 Stills Library\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bfca6e5e-93b4-4b4d-ae76-b8914bc9e2eb.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)\">Two women chat in Parnell Street, in Dublin&#8217;s north inner city. Photo: Nevill Johnson\/RT\u00c9 Stills Library<\/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)\">\u201cFor me, the Fifties wore a grey, tired face,\u201d James Plunkett wrote. \u201cI think of deserted wind-raked streets, bus stops cowering under the rain, the sad glimmer and dance of the streetlight reflections on the swollen tide of the Liffey.\u201d<\/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)\">Plunkett was writing the foreword to a collection of street photographs taken in Dublin by the artist Nevill Johnson in 1952-53. Looking back, it was a lifetime ago, but in many ways Dublin was a city still living in the Victorian era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nevill Johnson\u2019s images of Dublin in the 1950s paint a vivid picture of the capital before a lifetime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,43288],"class_list":{"0":"post-392907","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-liam-collins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392907","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=392907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}