In the early years of the 20th century, Ireland was a place of conflict. In this interactive series, photographer David Cleary returns to locations captured on film a century ago and takes new photographs showing how those settings have changed - or not.
This photo from the RTÉ Photographic Archive shows a newspaper vendor standing outside the ruins of the GPO on Dublin's Sackville Street, now O'Connell Street, in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916. He is wearing a bowler hat and is holding a bundle of newspapers under his left arm. More newspapers are arranged behind him on a plank of wood placed between two wooden barrels. A cart is partially visible to the left of the scene.
Over a century later, the GPO has been fully restored - and the structure on that corner looks remarkably similar, even though the bowler-hatted news vendors are long gone.
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Original image © RTÉ Photographic Archive
