Eric Luke’s archive of old negatives is the toast of Twitter. Eric Luke
With the hashtag #myoldnegatives, Eric Luke, a celebrated staff photographer with the Irish Times, started publishing photos from his archive on Twitter last year.
His snaps of Ireland in the 1970s and ‘80s are flash backs to Dublin streets, to a Dalkey barber shop, to Poitin making in Connemara, to festivals concerts with Queen and David Bowie.
Let them take you back in time.
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Smithfield Dublin in the early '80s...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Dublin pic.twitter.com/trBmu9Qsi8
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 17, 2014
Cooling down the fans at U2 gig in Croke park Dublin in the 1980s....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #U2 pic.twitter.com/quqD7mM67N
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 17, 2014
Smithfield Dublin in the early '80s...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Dublin pic.twitter.com/n6T3PF6VZ9
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 19, 2014
Smithfield Dublin in the early '80s...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Dublin pic.twitter.com/FSygawGx6g
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 19, 2014
As DalkeyBookFest is on, here's Dalkey barber Don McClure in the 1980s,from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Dalkey pic.twitter.com/xTeALl3xs8
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 21, 2014
As Dalkey Book Festival starts here's Dalkey barber Don McClure in the 1980s...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives pic.twitter.com/ygQIve0139
Poitín making in Connemara, Ireland in the late 1970s........from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Ireland pic.twitter.com/4uhYMNfJN5
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 17, 2014
Poitín making in Connemara, Ireland in the late 1970s........from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #ireland pic.twitter.com/wPgD7AStu9
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 17, 2014
"Security personnel" at Queen concert at Slane in the '80s...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives pic.twitter.com/Pt7av3qjRH
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 17, 2014
Speaking of Slane..remember this ? ...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #FreddieMercury pic.twitter.com/HIbXla1FxD
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 17, 2014
Looking through my negs for more pics of Phil Lynott in Dublin in the 1970s...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives I pic.twitter.com/dfdKqoiN1m
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 18, 2014
Cooling down the fans at David Bowie gig at Slane Ireland in the 1980s....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives pic.twitter.com/EAkk2SDdJC
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 17, 2014
A fishing boat off the West of Ireland in the 1980s....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives pic.twitter.com/6xIfAhsGKo
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 19, 2014
Tory Island Donegal in the late 1970s.........from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Donegal pic.twitter.com/pSOR7QB93f
DalkeyBookFest is on, here's Martin Sheen with local Des O'Brien in the 1980s,from my old negatives #myoldnegatives pic.twitter.com/cDOAuX1e6z
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 20, 2014
Pierce Brosnan in Dublin in the 1980s...from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Jamesbond pic.twitter.com/VMde8q072p
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 21, 2014
Skiff Rowing off Dalkey in the 1970s....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #dalkeybookfest pic.twitter.com/V2xRzIlKlo
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 22, 2014
Dublin street scene 35 years ago....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Dublin pic.twitter.com/7qov0XqxNg
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 23, 2014
Road bowling (Ból an bhóthair) in West Cork Ireland in the late '80s....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Cork pic.twitter.com/ZnAWhNuc4B
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 23, 2014
These cool guys road bowling in West Cork in the late '80s....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Cork pic.twitter.com/eftVsMzXjw
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 23, 2014
Smithfield Horse Fair in Dublin city 35 years ago.....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #dublin #ireland pic.twitter.com/dGpahji6Qt
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 25, 2014
Smithfield Dublin 35 years ago.....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #Dublin #Ireland pic.twitter.com/fftR3pcHvc
A sunny day West of Ireland late1970s....from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #ireland pic.twitter.com/0ATERMwyg5
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 16, 2014
Stradbally Co.Laois Ireland in the early 1970s....,from my old negatives #myoldnegatives #ireland pic.twitter.com/lj5YcfAYuK
— Eric Luke (@EricLuke2) June 16, 2014
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* Originally published in June 2014.