Abandoned Ireland travels the length and breadth of the island of Ireland visiting and documenting our forgotten buildings, highlighting their social importance, and bringing their stories back to life through the medium of photography.

From Big Houses to humble cottages, schools to prisons, churches to dance halls, these buildings may now be abandoned, but they are far from empty. As a photographer, Brownlie’s instincts are remarkable. In the seemingly ruined and mundane she finds diamonds in the rough; her images of the ordinary ephemera of past lives – dusty love letters, rusting spectacles, photographs yellowed and curled with age – paint the pictures of real people and full lives.

Rebecca Brownlie’s photography reverberates with the echoes of our ancestors. Bursting with engaging and often surprising details, each haunting photograph is an invitation to immerse yourself  in history, and an Ireland long gone.

Rebecca Brownlie grew up in County Down. When she was twelve years old, she won her first camera on a TV game show and her love of photography was sparked. Her passion for abandoned buildings and love of photography have led her to appear on several television shows featuring some of Ireland’s lost buildings. She can be regularly found hiking up mountainsides with her four-legged friend and children in tow.

Hardback • €27.95 | £24.99 •  256 pages •  245 mm x 205 mm • 9781785374326