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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ciarn Fahey

Former AP photographer's vintage images of Ireland capture a world before it disappeared

Germany Ireland Exhibition - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Rare photographs of Ireland from 1963 show a world about to disappear, a country before it took its first steps toward modernity.

Black and white images captured by a young German photographer, Diether Endlicher — who later spent four decades covering the Olympics and major global events for The Associated Press — are being shown at the Irish embassy in Berlin, where Endlicher, now 85, was honored last weekend for his role in documenting moments of Irish life from another era.

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