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Posted on January 8, 2018August 20, 2026 by donakello — 2 Comments

Photoessay: 100 Paces of Roadside Rubbish

It’s early January, and 2018 is still shiny and new and cold, and I pull in 5 miles from Clifden to get a photo of some mounds of gravel that have been piled up by the N59. I’m hoping to get something that is Connemara but not cliché, something that I can’t visualise, something I’m…

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Category: Photo Essay
Tags: Connemara, n59, photoessay, photography
Posted on October 30, 2017August 20, 2026 by donakello

Port Na bPúcaí: Macnas Parade, Galway 2017

old man from island, macnas parade 2017, Donal Kelly

The Dark Half. If you were to cut a year down the middle, right through the belly, it would make sense (in the northern hemisphere at least), to choose the time of Halloween. This is when Daylight Savings Time is cut from the clocks and autumn cedes to winter. It’s a transition from light to…

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Category: Photo Essay
Tags: Galway, Macnas, photoessay, photography

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