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Vanishing Ireland, Turtle Bunbury & James Fennell (Hodder Headline, 2006)
A
'triumph' is how the Daily Mirror described 'Vanishing Ireland',
the No. 1 selling Picture Book in Ireland for Christmas 2006. All 10,000
copies of the first print vanished in nine weeks. Published by Hodder Headline,
the book was shortlisted for the Easons Irish Published Book of the Year
Award 2007. Now in its fourth print run, the book features interviews with sixty senior
citizens from across Ireland and over 150 hypnotic portrait photographs
by James Fennell. The result is an invaluable, humorous and often poignant
chronicle of a rapidly disappearing world. A second volume is in the pipeline. Vanishing Ireland is
available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kenny's, Eason's, Alibris and
all good bookshops nationwide.
'Vanishing Ireland' received extremely positive reviews from the Irish media, with widespread television coverage on 'Today with Pat Kenny', 'Nationwide', 'Ireland AM', 'Seoige & O'Shea', 'The Sean Moncreiff Show' and 'Soiscéal Pháraic'. The book was serialized in The Dubliner throughout 2007 and formed major feature stories in Country Life, Cara, The Irish Times Magazine, The Irish Examiner Weekend, the Sunday Independent, the Irish Independent and Social & Personal. It was roundly praised on local radio across Ireland as well as in The Scotsman, The Irish Mirror, The Farmers Journal, The Metro, Ireland's Antiques & Properties, The Irish Arts Review, The Book of Interiors, Magill, Irish Tatler and Image Interiors.
'Vanishing Ireland' charted at No. 8 on Ireland's Hardback Non-Fiction Bestseller Charts the week after it's launch in Easons / Hannas Bookshop, Dawson St, Dublin on Wednesday 25th October 2006. By April 2007, it had climbed to No. 5. A second volume is in the pipeline.
ISBN: 034092277X
€29.99 RRP Hardback.
NB: The lack of women in 'Vanishing Ireland' has been the main source
of criticism levelled at us since the book was published. I should have
explained in the introduction to the book that the project began as a simple
chronicle of Ireland's bachelor farmers. They were the people we focused
on for the first few years, although we did photograph and interview some
fascinating women as well. Towards the end of the project, we decided we
would have to broaden the subject matter if we were ever to get the first
volume finished. So we began to interview non-bachelors and women. Some
of the women we met were happy to talk but said they would rather not have
their photographs taken.
