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Dropping in to see the Ma form Paris and rocking up to the table and the Ma putting out a fried egg, rashers and baked beans from the tin. Then she’d be off to the shops. The house would go quiet again. I always thought the light was different in Dublin than in Paris. As I looked around the kitchen, it seemed to have been stuck in a time that he knew so well but now was edging into a distant memory. The ma did her shopping in Dunnes. I’ve memories of going into town with her and walking on the small Summerhill path with the big old tenement houses before all of them knocked down and replaced with new, more modern ones. She always like shopping at Dunnes, she felt at home there.

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Kids playing with a fire hose on Parnell Street in Dublin, Ireland 1989

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Vous etre Anglais? When I was in France I got sick of telling them that I wasn't English, British, or from the UK. So, in the end I just conceded to being English. It was always at parties that you would meet someone who asked where you came from. So, when I started saying I was English, then they asked even more questions about exactly where I came from. Then the shock when you told them you were from Dublin, ah so you're Irish and "on aime les Irlandais, mais pas trop les rosbifs".

Photo - Fairview Park - Dublin - Ireland - 1989

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My father was never impressed with my photography. I don't think he understood why I was spending me money on film and chemicals. When he saw my Sheriff Street pics he ask me why are you photographing down there, that place is a dump, he said. I brushed if off. I didn't want to explain. I was on a different planet when it came to taking pictures. Some of the classmates wanted to be accountants. I have nothing against accountants but I did not want to be one. I felt the pull of the image.

Photo Sheriff Street, Dublin, Ireland 1989

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