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John Minihan (b.1946)
SEAMUS HEANEY AT THE GRAVESTONE OF LOUIS MACNEICE
photographic print
signed lower right and inscribed [Seamus Heaney who read at the gravestone of Louis MacNeice in
Carrowdore, Co. Down, for the Louis MacNeice centenary 2007, among the poets at the MacNeice
centenary, Edna Coughlan, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy.]
14 x 14¼in. (35.56 x 36.20cm)
John Minihan is an Irish photographer, born in Dublin in 1946 and raised in Athy, County Kildare. At the
age of 12 he was brought to live in London, and went on to become an apprentice photographer with
the Daily Mail. At the age of 15 he won the Evening Standard amateur photography competition. At 21
he became the youngest staff photographer for the Evening Standard. For thirty years he remained in
London, returning every year to his hometown of Athy to record the people and their daily lives.
Among his numerous photographic publications are Photographs: Samuel Beckett (1995); Shadows from
the Pale, Portrait of an Irish Town (1996); and An Unweaving of Rainbows, Images of Irish Writers (1996).
Estimate €400-€600 (approx £348-£522)
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