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IT MAY BE 28 years since the glory of Italia 90 and Jackie’s Army, but it continues to loom large in the Irish consciousness.
Last year, the publication of a 28-page book of images by photographer Tony O’Shea brought the electricity and joy of the Republic of Ireland’s homecoming celebrations to life once again.
Italia 90 Dublin marks the first time the photos have been published together as a series, and O’Shea says the collection speaks of a time of change for Ireland which began with Italia 90.
[I]t marked perhaps the beginning of a new departure in how the country thought about itself. The 1980s were a pretty bleak time in Ireland.
Italia 90 brought about a newfound positivity and a lift of spirits for Irish people, notes O’Shea:
By the beginning of the 1990s, a new confidence was beginning to emerge and a hope that we might after all be able to drag ourselves out of the doldrums. The performance of the team in the World Cup seemed to signal that.
To take the photos, which are 28 years old this year, O’Shea traveled in an overflow bus driving ahead of the team and photographed the crowds from there. The excitement on the streets was tangible and the atmosphere was one of “joy and celebration,” he recalls:
Most of the crowd were looking back to the team which made some of the pictures a little mysterious, maybe conveying a feeling of great expectations. It was an exciting, dramatic and high energy event to witness.
Independent English publisher Café Royal Books, which has a focus on documentary photography, publishes around 70 titles each year.
Craig Atkinson started Café Royal Books thirteen years ago, and mainly publishes shots from the UK and Northern Ireland.
It’s a type of work that is important, historically and photographically, and has been fairly neglected. Much of what I publish is previously unseen.
Despite the publishers’ growth over the last 13 years, Atkinson makes a point of producing work that’s affordable and accessible – most of the books cost around £6 (€6.80).
Italia ’90 is one of several Irish-themed books published by Café Royal Books. Others include Wally Cassidy’s Dublin Punks series and Homer Sykes’ Biddy Boys series.
“I’m sure there’ll be more,” says Atkinson. “In fact, I know there are more. Soon.”
You can buy Tony O’Shea’s Italia ’90 book for £6 from Café Royal Books. Additionally, you can follow them on Instagram here.
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Great app. Irene Walsh was brilliant at the launch of the iPad Pro. Really stood out. Super Irish success story!
Outstanding.
Meanwhile there’s another Irish anatomy app company that’s been collecting prizes and positive reviews for its products aimed at students and practitioners pocketanatomy
There’s no question that this looks brilliant, it can certainly impart a level of detail I’ve only seen on TV but is it viable? Despite the presentation who exactly is this product aimed at, if it were just aimed at the medical field you’d imagine it wouldn’t be available to the general public, yet it’s available to everyone. You’re left with the impression that, while they’d like the medical profession to use it, and market it to this profession, in reality it’s a rather clever marketing ploy to attract the general public to use this product, believing it to be what doctors use.
I attend quite a lot of doctors and hospitals and have yet to see one with an iPad in their surgery, many have an iPhone as a personal phone and of course a desktop computer is essential but not an iPad. I also know there are dedicated products out there from several medical companies, wireless tablet devices some running proprietary software which are able to link with other patient monitoring devices wirelessly. This would mean a patient in a clinic or hospital setting would have all their details wirelessly transmitted from one area to another, transparently, if any of their vital signs began to change as they travelled through the facility this would automatically be detected, alarms raised and staff notified. It would be a little like having everyone monitored all the time as if they were in an ICU.
I’d be particularly alarmed if I went to a consultant cardiologist and he pulled out an iPad to see how the heart worked.
The article alludes to medical students being core customers.
It’s for med students, physio students etc.
Or maybe she pulls it out to so you how “the heart works”. Believe it or not the general public often are to sure of the main arteries of the heart.
In Irene Walsh’s presentation above she began by saying that the average doctors consultation lasts only 7 minutes and their patient retains only 14% of the information received. This then led her into demonstrating the use of the software and its benefits with the new iPad Pro, with a few strategically placed Apple Watches too, where she said if she were a doctor she could discuss clinical issues with a patients knee, for example.
At one point in the demonstration, while using the new pencil tool, she said if she were a Medical Student she could use it to accurately cut through the models layers and simulate surgical procedures. She went on to say that as a physician if a patient presented with another knee injury she could use the pencil tool again to demonstrate to them exactly what is happening, including if they happened to have varying levels of arthritis.
She also clearly stated that she could record all this and share it with the patient for them to view with the software on their own iPad. This implicitly assumes both patient and doctor must be using the same software, and of course must also have an iPad.
Indeed she did Sharky. The Apple keynote speech is not an indication of the target market. It is an exploration of possible markets.
They could widen their audience and usp by making sure that everything can be downloaded as stl/obj/ply for 3D printing too.
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