The very talented John Breslin runs the Twitter account Old Ireland in Colour. He colourises old photos and he does an amazing job – it is an essential follow.
For today he put up the colourised photo of the Easter Rising leaders, it really brings them to life. His previous work is well worth checking out, I have included some examples below.
Peig Sayers at her own fireplace
1946
Dunquin, Co. Kerry
Photographer: Caoimhín Ó Danachair
Source: https://t.co/xzEeoUzlwl @duchas_ie CC BY-NC 4.0
Sounds: https://t.co/el0SbIc7p2 CC BY 3.0#DeOldify #3DPhotoInpainting pic.twitter.com/LJAqUgOvCx
— Old Ireland Takeover / Irish Family Detective (@irelandincolour) April 23, 2020
Charles Stewart Parnell: our best picture of him yet!
– Irish nationalist politician and land reform agitator
– MP 1875 to 1891 (took seat 145 years ago today)
– Founder of Irish National Land League in 1879
– Leader of Home Rule League 1880-82, Irish Parliamentary Party 1882-91 pic.twitter.com/nfODJlsrQw— Old Ireland Takeover / Irish Family Detective (@irelandincolour) April 22, 2020
Girls' Dress, Inis Meáin / Inishmaan, Co. Galway / 1930s-1950s / Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh
Source: https://t.co/iBoWpnrHYH @duchas_ie CC BY-NC 4.0#DeOldify #Photoshop #AI pic.twitter.com/e5TKjD58nC
— Old Ireland Takeover / Irish Family Detective (@irelandincolour) April 22, 2020
– Oscar Wilde apparently wrote the part of Mrs. Erlynne in "Lady Windermere's Fan" with her in mind pic.twitter.com/21Us02K1UK
— Old Ireland Takeover / Irish Family Detective (@irelandincolour) April 22, 2020
Eason & Son kiosk in Belfast’s Great Victoria Street Railway station in 1956. Enough reading material to last a lifetime … #Belfast #DeOldify @irelandincolour @DocumentBelfast @easons pic.twitter.com/LCVaiLIpfR
— The Classic Cinemas of Belfast (@manfrombelfast) April 20, 2020
Just extraordinary work. https://t.co/Vh0noRKunV
— Linda at SeaSugar Confectionery #propersweets 🍬 (@seasugarsweets) April 17, 2020
By the end of 2001, her likeness was being used as the watermark on €4.3 billion worth of Irish punt banknotes
Here is Lady Hazel Martyn Lavery (1880-1935) dressed as Flora in Botticelli's painting, The Spring
18 November 1925
Source: https://t.co/iQwpDd2t6J @librarycongress pic.twitter.com/u4IhxK3AaS
— Old Ireland Takeover / Irish Family Detective (@irelandincolour) April 15, 2020
I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not a member of any political party. Oddly for a member of the Slugger team, I am not that interested in daily politics, preferring to write about big ideas in society. When not stuck in front of a screen, I am a parkrun Run Director.
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