Documenting Ireland Through Photography

Lucy Wray completed her doctoral research at Queen’s University Belfast.  The project, funded by Northern Bridge Consortium and held in partnership with National Museums NI, focused on the A.R. Hogg photographic collection. Hogg’s photographs date from final years of the nineteenth century to just before the outbreak of the Second World War. While locations throughout Ireland are recorded in the collection, its primary focus is Belfast. The thesis explored how Hogg’s photos represents every-day life in Belfast, and the relationship between the photographer and the city.