The Man on the Bridge

Fraoch333 · 10-01-2022 10:05PM #1

I love finding old photos of relatives and recently came across a website manonbridge dot ie (sorry I still can't post links yet). The photos were taken from the 1930s to the 1980s by Arthur Fields, the street photographer who photographed people on and around O'Connell Bridge in Dublin.

I could do a name search for relatives on the pc but that facility didn't seem to be available on my phone for some reason. Even just looking through the photos and seeing the styles and city changing over the years was very interesting.

Hope you find some of your relations there!

Jellybaby_1 · 10-01-2022 10:17PM

The Man on The Bridge is well known, RTE did a great documentary on him a few years ago and there was an exhibition of his photographs as well. There had been a call for people to send in any photos they had or identify any that were in the collection. My friends and my own family found several photos of our aunts and cousins. There was a book of photographs published around the same time. Great resource and very nostalgic, especially for Dubliners.

Fraoch333 · 10-01-2022 10:34PM

@Jellybaby_1 Thanks for all that info, it's such a great project. I was delighted to come across some relations on the website and in the book and love the photos I have of my Mam and Dad on the bridge from many years ago.

pinkypinky · 11-01-2022 10:12AM

There's a couple of photos in my family which I feel sure must have been taken by him including what I think is the earliest photo of my grandparents together - they both look impossibly young and lovely.

Rmulvany · 11-01-2022 04:00PM

I was under the impression that there were a number of different photographers taking these candid pictures in Dublin.

I have a number of them in my possession of grandparents, relations etc. Is there anything tell tell to look out for in Arthur Fields'?

The Man on the Bridge

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