“Arnold’s images, seem distant, almost imperious, amid the myriad rituals of masculinity”
Sean O’Hagan

What role can photography still play in reporting the state of a nation? Seamus Murphy grew up in Ireland, but has spent most of his life in exile, living in London and documenting war zones across the world, from Afghanistan to Kosovo, in collaboration with singer-songwriter P J Harvey. His new book, The Republic, is a journey home to mark the 1916 centenary. What country did he find? Ciarán Óg Arnold’s work documents a less visible Ireland, of small country towns and isolated communities. Óg Arnold’s work in I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was get drunk again adopts a more expressionistic idiom, typifiying an exciting new generation of photographers capturing an Ireland outside the media spotlight. Join them for this illustrated talk in which they discuss their work. The event will be chaired by Trish Lambe, Co-Director of the Gallery of Photography, Ireland