In Hinde Sight: Postcards from Ireland Past

Despite the famously uncooperative Irish weather, John Hinde’s postcards of Ireland featured bright sunshine and blue skies, a country seemingly peopled entirely with redheads, with donkeys carrying turf, and charming cottages that appeared to grow upward from the earth itself. Cars and sweaters were in primary colors, and scarlet rhododendrons sprang up in the unlikeliest of places.

John Hinde had a clear vision: "We need to be uplifted rather than depressed. To me pictures should always co...