Young Irish Traveller woman in Southern Ireland 1970s

To mark St Patrick’s Day, the Photographers’ Gallery in London is releasing newly restored pictures of rural Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s by a pioneer of British and Irish postcard art, John Hinde

People relax along the rugged coastline of Achill Island, Ireland, back in 1940.

The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago

Although we cannot get into the minds of the people waiting in a queue on a cold day in Chukotka, Soviet Union back in 1985 to get wine, or what the daredevil sky boys who built the Empire State Building in 1930-31 were thinking when balancing unsecured on the 88th floor, we can get a fairly good glimpse into the wonders of history.

The images offer a glimpse of a time gone by in Ireland, with horses in the streets, people sitting on mail trucks, and food and livestock changing hands in public squares.

Doug DuBois spent five summers photographing the small neighborhood of Russell Heights in Ireland to capture the essence of coming of age: the inevitable loss of youth and the imminent transition…