Image: Wally Cassidy
We’re big fans of Wally Cassidy’s photography, and have shared some of his brilliant shots from the 1980s both here and on our Facebook page. From youth subcultures to great moments of protest and rage, Wally captured some real gems in black and white. There is something about the medium of black and white with photography, it remains timeless. Yesterday, Wally took a series of brilliant photographs at the Anti-Austerity demonstration, and has allowed me to share a few here.
On the march itself, to me it felt a bit like going through the motions. The hostility towards the overpaid union top-brass was totally unsurprising, and Jack O’Connor’s absence from the speakers list notable. I don’t blame him!
You can see some of Wally’s classic images, and some more recent shots, over here on his Facebook page.
Image credit: Wally Cassidy
Image credit: Wally Cassidy
Image: Wally Cassidy
Image: Wally Cassidy
Image: Wally Cassidy
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I seriously wonder if all this marching does any good. Last year outside Dail Eireann there were protests running into protests.
When the alternative to voting in a bunch of clowns is another bunch of clowns you’re stuck either way. We should vote to be invaded. It could be put out to tender and the winning bidder welcomed with a reception outside the GPO and a State dinner in Farmleigh.
PS: The facebook link is not working.
This is the link to the Wally Cassidy facebook page; http://www.facebook.com/WallyCassidyPhotography?fref=ts
maybe a small part of the problem is the way we put ourselves down, obviously there is setting agreed objectives and strategy but i think there is also confidence issues affecting things in Ireland. there is a republished collection of pearses writings in easons at the moment, the sovereign people. personally think the striking thing he was trying to say was have a bit of confidence or self belief, at some points when reading him you can almost share the feeling of him hitting his head against the wall. if the theme of our discussion is hand the keys back to the brits and apologies or we all partied etc then we shouldn’t be to surprised at the lack of productivity from that sort of thinking which portrays people in the negative. people need self belief for the most basic things from getting up in the morning to creating a counter hegemony.
Maybe if Paddy Pearce had banged his head off a wall a lot earlier and hard enough to do permanent damage, the country wouldn’t be in such a mess now.
you might be right. though i think his imagery had a more lasting effect than his idea’s. some people don’t like that imagery, i respect that. the point i was getting at though was that the same lethargy existed in his time. rather than dismiss people for it he tried to talk them up.