This England
Barry Delaney
Hi Tone Books
English
Hardcover
60 pages
265 x 250 mm
2026
ISBN 9781917445061
“With a Barry Delaney photograph, we are part of a vivid present tense. They are never static. Something is always happening. This has never been more true than in This England, Barry’s best book so far, in my opinion. The jeopardy here is more palpable than ever. Often we are looking at intense moments of celebration. The bursting forth of some innate and narcotic sense of tribal identity. From within the tribe, these pictures are joyful. However, it is impossible to forget that Barry is an Irish photographer and that, demonstrably, these are not Irish scenes.”
“On the 11am tube to Waterloo the anxiety kicked in, an Irishman surrounded by mobs of Union Jack clad lads. The rally was way bigger than I had anticipated. Something came over me, the fear turned to adrenaline and I began to photograph. I perched myself alone on Westminster Bridge for three hours and snapped, I was challenged aggressively, but didn’t back down. I was here to document. So here it is, This England, a ten year study of our neighbours, with a nod to the Specials and Sleaford Mods. Peace.”
(Source: https://hitonebooks.ie/this-england)
About the Artist
Inspired by the colour, energy and DIY attitude of punk, Barry fled the grey Dublin of the early 1980s, to travel the world and fell in love with documentary photography. Twenty years ago he began documenting life in inner city Dublin; This became the ‘Stars and Souls of the Liffey’ project, which he exhibited at the GPO, Dublin in 2019 along with the now sold out book. Barry returned to America for the 2016 election, to document life in Modern America – New York through the Rust Belt and across to San Francisco – This work was exhibited as Americans Anonymous at the Ranelagh Arts centre in 2018 , and became his second book : ‘Americans Anonymous’ (accompanied with poems by John O’Donnell).
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(Source: https://visualartists.ie/arts-directory/id/barry-delaney/About)
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.
https://hitonebooks.ie
(Source: https://hitonebooks.ie/about)
