Circle of Friends is a 1995 film, based on the 1990 novel of the same name written by Maeve Binchy.

Starring Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Saffron Burrows, Alan Cumming, Colin Firth, Geraldine O'Rawe, Aidan Gillen

Part I

Photographer Elliott Erwitt has died at 95

This photograph of Dublin in 1962 shows a very different Ireland

Source: https://imma.ie/collection/dublin/

Dan Flynn with his cats. 1967. This was from a series taken by photographer Alan Macweeney documenting the lives of Irish Travellers near Dublin in the mid 1960s to early 70s. Source, and more info about Macweeney's project.

Man throwing a firebomb during the Battle of the Bogside, Derry, Northern Ireland, Tony McGrath, August 1969

An Irish Traveller and his cats, 1965. When Alen Macweeney returned to his native Ireland in the 1960s, after working as Richard Avedon’s assistant, he first intended to do a photo essay about W.B. Yeats. His research led him to cover another quintessentially Irish subject, one up to then neglected in photojournalism and Irish society in general. “In search of a tinker woman as a subject. In a sprawling field of caravans, shed, and horses on the outskirts of Dublin he found himself “immersed in the life of the people then called tinkers, but now more respectfully known as travellers, for the next five years.” From 1965 to 1971, Macweeney documented the lives of Irish Travellers, and in so doing, “without meaning to,” he eventually “became one of the foremost amateur anthropologists of Traveller culture,” a people invisible to most of his countrymen and women. From our story: Documents the Lives of Irish Travellers Outside Dublin in the Late 1960s #dublin #ireland #traveller #photo #portrait #1960s #travellers #irishtraveller #photograph #photographer https://www.instagram.com/p/CqFMztCMVv4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, William Castle, and John Ireland at the premiere of I SAW WHAT YOU DID (1965). Castle directed and Crawford and Ireland star.

“This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection.” - President John F. Kennedy🤍🇮🇪

Jack in Ireland, June 1963💚

Junction of O’Connell street and North Earl street, Dublin, 1964. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.  

1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Foreword by John I. H. Baur, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1969 (pdf here)

Exhibition: December 16, 1969 – February 1, 1970 Exhibition Curator: Robert Doty

Cover Art: Cy Twombly / l'Altissimo /

I Saw What You Did (1965)

Circle of Friends is a 1995 film, based on the 1990 novel of the same name written by Maeve Binchy.

Starring Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Saffron Burrows, Alan Cumming, Colin Firth, Geraldine O'Rawe, Aidan Gillen

Part IV

The Dubliners (in 1968), singing "Whiskey in the Jar"

“You know, When I bought the bloody thing, you know, you’’ve just moved out, and  I  didn’t figure i’d have to taxi the lot of you around anywhere anymore”

How many top-of-the-world-order nations does it take to correctly book the privete cars to get to the utmost-important world meeting at the height of the cold war?

answer: More then an empires worth apparently.

Derry, Northern Ireland, Tony McGrath, 1969

John Ireland being visited by John Ford on set of 55 Days at Peking (1963), 1963. Ford had previously directed Ireland's first Western movie My Darling Clementine (1946).

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