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- [1985]-[1989]
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4 files c. 120 pp
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Assorted photographs from events produced by Macnas between 1985 and 1989. Includes an image marked as being a launch/promotional event from the 1985 Galway Arts Festival. Pictured include Padraic Breathnach with the Spanish Ambassador to Ireland and members of Macnas in costume; Photographs from Daffodil Day event, with scenes from the Macnas workshop of construction of the daffodils; images of Wren Boys and characters dressed as mummers and straw boys, playing musical instruments; prints and contact sheets from shoot of Macnas members in Victorian black mourning clothes at the scene of a funeral for cigarettes (possible anti-smoking campaign). Also black and white photograph of Padraic Breathnach pictured in the Claddagh during a Macnas parade, arms lifted in the air, wearing a white Macnas-branded vest.
Also black and white photographic print of Padraic Breathnach, visible from the waist up within a giant shoe, being pushed by Macnas performers, with two girls with bicycles looking on.
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19/02/2020
22/07/2025