
Museum
- Publisher
- RRB Photobooks
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 9780995744653
- Specifications
- Flexicover
First Edition
68 pages
Special Edition exclusive to RRB Photobooks
Collaboration between renowned poet Paula Meehan and award-winning photographer Dragana Jurišić
Includes an RRB exclusive print
Produced in collaboration with the museum and tenement house at 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin
Dublin City Council Culture Company & Dublin City Council, 2019
Museum is a collaboration between the renowned Irish poet Paula Meehan and the photographer Dragana Jurišić, made around 14 Henrietta Street, the celebrated Dublin tenement and museum. The book tells the story of the building's shifting fortunes through three hundred years of city life: a journey from its grand Georgian beginnings to the tenement dwellings of its later years. Through people and memory, it aims to deepen understanding of the history of urban life and housing in Ireland. 'The DNA footprint of the people who lived in the house is impressed into the floors, stored beneath the floorboards, carved onto those walls. It's the walls that fascinated me the most. They were like secret maps inviting you to imagine the hundreds of destinies 14 Henrietta Street witnessed.' Jurišić photographs the rooms, the surfaces, the marks left by inhabitants across generations; Meehan responds in poetry that follows the stratigraphy of the building. Together the book offers an extended meditation on a single domestic site as a hinge of social history. The volume is signed and includes an RRB-exclusive print.