From the Mount Brandon Hotel Collection
Opening Thursday 8 March 7:00pm
Opening Thursday 8 March 7:00pm
At the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh
Images of Emigration Circa 1920’s Cobh
Running until Sunday 22 April
As part of the RMS Titanic Centenary Commemoration, Sirius Arts Centre is honoured to exhibit photographs from the Mount Brandon Hotel Collection (Courtesy of Mrs. Iris Toner). Taken in a local photography Studio, these images capture travellers prior to embarking on journeys that would change their lives forever. The exhibition also includes images of Cobh street scenes from the Lawrence Collection (Courtesy of the Wiltshire Collection, The National Library of Ireland). In mounting this exhibition, Sirius Arts Centre wishes to create a space for contemplation and reflection, commemorating the RMS Titanic and all those who continued to emigrate from Ireland in the years that followed the tragedy – the people of in these photographs emigrated in the years after the Titanic left Cobh as many other thousands did in the years that followed.
Special thanks to Iris Toner for the loan of the collection to create this exhibition and to Tony O’Brien at Right Brain (www.rightbrain.ie) for his sponsorship and care in printing the images.
For more information contact Sirius Arts Centre at 021 481 3790
Or via email at: cobharts@iol.ie
www. siriusartscentre.ie
