Tipperary library hosts a photographic exhibition during National Heritage Week

An exhibition of the work of pioneering photographer, William Despard Hemphill (1816-1902  I) is now open at Clonmel Library. The exhibition includes iconic landscape images of Clonmel, still lifes and Hemphill's outstanding portraits of the Osbornes at Newtown Anner.

The exhibition was opened on  by Dr. Karol Mullaney Dignam, associate professor University of Limerick , who will presented a talk - 'Dr. Hemphil's Clonmel- photography and cultural life in the nineteenth century.' The exhibition will run until August 24.