File of black and white and also colour photographs taken during the construction of the Gulliver giant model by Macnas in 1988. Images detail segments of the giant under construction and in place on Grattan Beach, Galway. (Seapoint visible in the background). Images also capture the public as they encounter Gulliver on the beach, children and adults, as well as those working and performing around the Gulliver pageant. Also images of Gulliver being transported by road away from the beach, possibly Grattan Beach.
File also includes some colour photographs taken at Dollymount Strand, Dublin, of Gulliver in position on the beach and of the crowd gathered around.
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Two files of photographs. File 1 includes colour photographs of unnamed individual who is a model for the design of the Gulliver giant by Macnas. the individual is in costume as Gulliver and is shown in a variety of poses and as design research for Gulliver. Photographs are full-length portraits as well as taken of close-up shots of hands, shoes, feet, face etc. again, in design planning or Gulliver by Macnas.
File 2 and also Box File (File 3) includes photographs of the construction of the wooden frame for Gulliver and the making of the Gulliver model in the Macnas workshop.
Colour photographs from the Gulliver pageant as part of Dublin Millennium celebrations, July 1988. The images are all of Gulliver parade and pageant through Dublin City, including images of Gulliver floating down the Liffey and of the gathered crowds from around Dublin city viewing the events. Also images of an inflatable Gulliver in parade through Dublin City.
File of black and white photographic prints, as well as contact sheets, from performance of the Wren Boys by Macnas in Galway City. Includes images of performers in straw costume, sometimes knows as 'mumming' or as 'the straw boys'.
Assorted photographs from events produced by Macnas between 1985 and 1989. Includes an image marked as being a launch/promotional event from the 1985 Galway Arts Festival. Pictured include Padraic Breathnach with the Spanish Ambassador to Ireland and members of Macnas in costume; Photographs from Daffodil Day event, with scenes from the Macnas workshop of construction of the daffodils; images of Wren Boys and characters dressed as mummers and straw boys, playing musical instruments; prints and contact sheets from shoot of Macnas members in Victorian black mourning clothes at the scene of a funeral for cigarettes (possible anti-smoking campaign). Also black and white photograph of Padraic Breathnach pictured in the Claddagh during a Macnas parade, arms lifted in the air, wearing a white Macnas-branded vest.
Also black and white photographic print of Padraic Breathnach, visible from the waist up within a giant shoe, being pushed by Macnas performers, with two girls with bicycles looking on.
File of mostly black and white photographic prints from various Macnas events in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Includes colour print of Macnas performers that featured in a National Geographic feature article on Ireland in 1994; image of a child sitting on a cut out wooden map of Ireland; contact sheets of various Macnas workshop images, and related Macnas images of the time.
Colour photographic prints from 1990 parade by Macnas in Galway. A note labels the images as being "An Slua Siadhe" or "An Slua Sui".
Colour and also black and white photographs from scenes from parade of 'the Whale' in Galway by Macnas, as part of 1989 Galway Arts Festival. Includes promotional/photocall images taken of Ollie Jennings of Galway Arts Festival, with Prof. Colm Ó hEocha, President, University College Galway (NUI Galway) along with other props and performers from the parade, as mermaid characters and sea-themed parade. Numerous shots from around streets of Galway city, Fisheries Field, and also of the construction of models and props for use in the parade by Macnas.
Colour photographs taken during the production of 'Tír Faoi Thonn' by Macnas in Waterford City.
Colour photographs from production of 'Tír Faoi Thonn' parade by Macnas. Includes images of the parade through Galway city and of characters and performers. Includes black and white photographic print of Colm Ó hEocha sitting within the serpent puppet, held by Macnas performers. c. 1991.