Photographic Exhibition “Through a Swedish Lens" Carraroe Library

Teideal: Trí lionsa Sualannach – íomhánna de shaol na hÉireann ag tús an fichiú céad/
Title: Through a Swedish lens – images of early twentieth-century Irish life
Carraroe Library hosted the prestigious photographic exhibition ‘Through a Swedish Lens’ during May 2010. This beautiful photographic exhibition was presented by the National Folklore Collection, UCD and is currently touring Ireland. It illustrates the work of 4 Swedish ethnologists who visited Ireland 1920-1950.
Photographs from Galway-Connamara and Aran- were included in the exhibition and there was also an excellent brochure. There were no names to the people in the pictures.
One picture taken in 1935 in Carraroe included Michael Nee and his sister who were identified by people viewing the photographs. Michael Nee (aged 91) passed away during the time of the exhibition in Carraroe Library. His sister passed away a few years ago.
The Library will host the exhibition again in the Autumn/Winter 2010.

Cur síos: Déanann an taispeántas grianghrafadóireachta seo ceiliúradh ar an méid a chuir ceathrar scoláirí agus scríbhneoirí Sualannacha le cultúr na hÉireann sa chéad leath den fhichiú céad. Ina measc bhí an béaloideasóir cáiliúl Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an bheirt scoláire eitneolaíochta, Albert Eskeröd agus Åke Campbell, agus an scríbhneoir Harriet Hjorth Wetterström. Bhí ról suntasach ag gach duine acu maidir le staidéar ar bhéaloideas agus eitneolaíocht na hÉireann a chur chun cinn agus le teagmháil idir an tSualainn agus Éirinn a chothú. Ba ghrianghrafadóirí cumasacha iad an triúr fear agus ban, agus caomhnaítear an-chuid de na grianghraif agus comhfhreagras anois le comhghleacaithe Éireannacha i gCnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann, an Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath.

Description: This photographic exhibition celebrates the contribution of four Swedish scholars and writers to Irish culture in the first half of the twentieth century. They include the celebrated folklorist Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, the ethnologists Albert Eskeröd and Åke Campbell, and the writer Harriet Hjorth Wetterström. Each of them went on to play a significant role in advancing the study of Irish folklore and ethnology and in cultivating Swedish-Irish relations. All four men and women were also capable photographers, and many of the photographs and correspondence with Irish colleagues are now preserved in the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin.