List Price: £24.99 Price: £16.63 You save: £8.36 (33%)
Media: Hardcover Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Brilliant portraits and gripping journalism This is a great two-hander if you like photography books with a little more of the background on their subjects. Fennell's portraits are very good - revealing, touching and poignant. And the stories Bunbury has written for each of the people who appear in the book add an extra, brilliant dimension. Look at the portraits, read the story and then go back and see how much more history you can see written in the faces of these beautiful, stoic people. Rather than whinge about how life might have changed in... more info
vanishing ireland if it is possible to request A. Rogers the recent reviewer of Vanishing Ireland to contact the author of Vanishing Ireland Turtle Bunbury via email at ;tbunbury@gmail.com
Turtle would like to communicate with A. Rodgers,
to discuss some of his comments and ideas,
thank you , declan doyle
Barely Scratches the Surface I bought this book thinking it would be a somewhat detailed chronicling of the traditional ways of life in Ireland that are rapidly fading away but it doesn't get under the surface of rural, traditional Ireland at all. This book is very much an outsiders view of what traditional Irish life is like, even if the author is Irish himself it is quite clear he doesn't have much of a conception of the way of life he is trying to depict. It would also appear that he has not spent a great deal of effort trying... more info
Beautiful This book moved me to tears, the prose and photography demonstrate a sensitivity and love of an almost vanished Ireland. They have managed to capture what is left of our soul before we sold it to the Celtic Tiger. A must buy and a magnificent book...
