The Year in Pictures

Images captured by ‘Irish Times’ photographers and agencies in Ireland and around the world tell the often harrowing, sometimes uplifting, but always powerful stories of 2015

Migration in the Mediterranean: the toll on humanity

Rosita Boland: ‘I watched as migrants from Syria, Bangladesh, Mali and Nigeria took their first steps on land since embarking from Libya on boats they knew could as easily transform overnight into their coffins’

Ireland from the Air Corps

The Irish Air Corps enjoy some of the best views in Ireland. The force’s photographic unit, 105 Squadron, captured these images in the course of their work

Snap happy: sisters photographed every year for 40 years

A series of photographs taken of four sisters over a 40 year period has been exhibited at MoMa and seen around the world. Now a complete set of the images has come on the market

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For review – sub-noir and comical

Irish Times photographer David Sleator dies suddenly

Tributes paid to ‘most reliable, decent, down-to-earth guy’

Hume’s 1964 ‘Irish Times’ articles helped redefine nationalist attitudes to North

National public airing of principle of unity by consent

The Times We Lived In: Hair-raising weather

Photograph by Frank Miller, first oublished on February 2nd, 1990

Irish Times Amateur Photographer of the Year Awards 2013

We’re offering prizes of €1,000 each for best photographer and best photograph

Syria: Balancing act of printing images of war

Is it appropriate for news outlets to use distressing pictures of the dead?

Melancholy Witness: Images of the Troubles, by Seán Hillen

Hillen’s black-and-white photographs, sombre yet wistful, are a compelling record of life during the worst years in the North

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