The Emergency in Colour

Vividly captures wartime Ireland through over 200 hand-colorized photos, revealing everyday life during extraordinary times with insightful captions by historian Michael B. Barry.

The Emergency in Colour brings wartime Ireland to life in dramatic color.

Through extensive research, the photos presented here have been painstakingly hand-colorized by photographer John O’Byrne, showing what life on the island was like in extraordinary times.

There are over 200 photographs from across the country, many of which have never been published before, all of them accompanied by fascinating and accessible captions from historian Michael B. Barry.