Portfolio

David Creedon ARPS

David Creedon was born in Cork Ireland . He has been doing photography for over twenty five years and has exhibited in both the United States and Ireland.

His current portfolio, “Ghosts of the Faithful Departed”, looks at  isolation, loneliness and decay in rural Ireland set against a backdrop of mass emigration of the 1950s to the 1980s

It has been estimated that between 1949 and 1989 well over 800,000 people were forced to leave Ireland. Something in the order of half of this outflow occurred during the 1950s. 

Those who stayed had to suffer continued hardships, isolation & social exclusion. The rural communities were decimated by the impact of emigration. Many of those who stayed in this decade did so in silence as they watched family members and friend’s leave. Now in a new millennium these people have passed on and their homes stand as a monument to a bygone age. .