21/08/2024
BOOK LAUNCH AND PHOTO EXHIBITION
Monday 9th September @ 7.30pm
Sean O’Casey Community Centre
Independent Dublin publishers Hi Tone Books will release Colm Pierce's book “Sheriff Street Dublin 1” on September 9th as part of this year's Seán O'Casey festival.
Sheriff Street Dublin 1 - Colm Pierce (Hi Tone Books 2024)
Dubliner Colm Pierce’s intimate and sensitive work spotlights Sheriff Street and its surrounding areas. Nestled between Dublin’s docklands and the Irish Financial Service Centre, at a time when its north inner city working class community transcended traditional dockland industry unemployment to the imminent arrival of Celtic Tiger gentrification. From its schools, football teams, community disco and play groups, an oft overlooked and polarised neighbourhood and its residents are vividly captured through the joy, hope and grind of family life, youthful coming of age and mid-life routine. From reputation to relocation, decay to demolition. The belonging to and uncertainties of, a community in the midst of beckoning change.
Book launch and exhibition
Monday 9th September 7.30pm
Exhibition will continue until 20th September
(www.hitonebooks.ie)