Here Comes Everybody

Photographs made in Ireland from 1993 to 2005

“I now wanted to photograph in Ireland and planned the timing of my next visit more carefully. I would teach for three days in the middle of the week, allowing me to go on the last Sunday in July to the annual pilgrimage at Croagh Patrick then on the last Sunday in August to the pilgrimage at Mamean that the Irish photographer, Tony O’Shea, had told me about. O’Shea said that Mamean was small and special, very much a local event, different, he said, from Croagh Patrick as all the rites were sung in Irish and it was in a beautiful place. He also cautioned me that the priest there was fierce.”