12/05/2018
Join us this evening from 7PM the launch of our latest exhibition, The Lost Moment – Civil Rights, Street Protest and Resistance in Northern Ireland, 1968-69.
Featuring dramatic images by Steve Schapiro of the famous Selma to Montgomery civil rights march in 1965, alongside work from renowned Magnum photographers David Hurn, Josef Koudelka and Ian Berry, the exhibition places the Northern Irish civil rights struggle in the context of the many international street protests that made 1968 such a tumultuous year.
The Northern Irish civil rights struggle, from the first march in August 1968 to the Battle of the Bogside in 1969, is captured though the work of Gilles Caron, Clive Limpkin, David Newell-Smith, Buzz Logan, Barney McMonagle, Eamon Melaugh, Larry Dickinson and Tony McGrath.
The exhibition also includes projections, film from the RTÉ Archives, political posters and a wealth of other ephemera from the time.
Tonight's event will see curator Sean O'Hagan, who writes for The Guardian, in conversation with Eamonn McCann, as well as a curator tour. Free admission – all welcome to come along.
