Martin Parr: From the Pope to a Flat White, Ireland 1979-2019

Forty years of transformation and upheaval: compiling Martin Parr’s longstanding love affair with Ireland

Martin Parr (born 1952) has been taking photographs in Ireland for 40 years. His work covers many of the most significant moments in Ireland’s recent history, encompassing the Pope’s visit in 1979, when a third of the country’s population attended Mass in Knock and Phoenix Park in Dublin, to gay weddings in 2019.

Parr lived in the West of Ireland between 1980 and 1982. He photographed tra...