Almost Made This Place My Own: Visions of America 1978–1979
Eamon Carr
Hi Tone Books
English
Hardcover
88 pages
180 x 250 mm
2026
ISBN 9781917445023
Almost Made This Place My Own is a richly atmospheric body of work offering an unusual and deeply personal perspective on life in the United States during the late 1970s. Moving between intimacy and distance, Carr documents both the mythology and mundanity of America with an observant, poetic eye.
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About the Artist
Writer, musician, art historian, Eamon Carr’s artistic career began when, inspired by the Liverpool Scene, he set up the Tara Telephone collective with Peter Fallon in 1969. The group organised poetry workshops and published the small press Capella magazine, Book of Invasions broadsheet and began a series of collections under the Gallery Books imprint. The group also gave recitals and toured extensively. One of Eamon’s initiatives was to team up with Che Guevara poster artist Jim Fitzpatrick for a series of poem posters. One of these, A Tale of Love, was included in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005, which later toured to Vienna and Frankfurt. In 1971, Eamon moved on to co-found Horslips, the pioneering folk-rock group in which he is lyricist and drummer. The group’s most recent releases are More Than You Can Chew, a box-set of 33 albums, Horslips at the BBC, a 4 CD plus DVD box-set, and Drive the Cold Winter Away, 2025 remastered LP on white vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.
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About the Publisher
Hi Tone Books are publishers of high quality books on Irish popular culture and photography. Hi Tone Books is run by Dubliners Garry O’Neill and Niall McCormack.
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