Abandoned Ireland

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I had been through most of the building and had just come out of the canteen, which had a glass door, intending to head up to the last remaining floor. They were constructed to house those who were ‘poverty stricken’ and some who were sent there for punishment. As I venture upstairs, I’m taken aback to see old tea sacks filled with straw lying on the raised platforms.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The Murphy family settled down and started a new life, but Ann was said to have been so traumatised from the events that she spent the rest of her life in a mental institution. Two exorcisms were performed (the first ever recorded in Ireland) by Fr Peter Smyth and Fr Eugene Coyle from Maguiresbridge.CENTRAL HIDE AND SKIN CO LTD, DUBLIN: Watling Street, which is where 'this business once thrived', says Connolly, 'was a centre for Dublin's leather and tanning industry'. We started to work on the book and a few months down the line I had a publisher, Dublin-based Merrion Press. This is a truly heart-warming story of loss, recovery and above all, of community' Bernie McGill, author of The Watch House.

Brownlie’s full-time job is with a pharmaceutical company and she’s self-taught as a photographer, but she has a natural eye for composition, and a talent for picking out features of interest, whether that’s highlighting the breathtaking architectural aspects of a building, or honing in on the sights that tell the stories of the forgotten lives within. MINARD CASTLE, DINGLE PENINSULA, COUNTY KERRY: 'Constructed in the mid-16th century for the Fitzgerald clan, the structure of this castle was so strong that it withstood four charges being detonated at its corners by Oliver Cromwell's English troops in the 1650s,' Connolly says of this isolated fortress.

As I walk through the workhouse, I can see things that still remain: old worn-out shoes and a fireguard still in place in the children’s nursery. Abandoned Ireland by Dominic Connolly, published by Amber Books , shows the extraordinary past of the small island country, exploring everywhere 'from the sparsely inhabited west coast to the urban buzz of Dublin and Belfast '.

Photographer Rebecca Brownlie had just left the empty canteen in an old abandoned convent school when she paused to take a picture of the building’s impressive staircase. The house was being demolished for a new build and I had been asked to document it as it was before this work started. Years later, they gifted the house to the Hospital Trust, and it was then used a convalescence hospital.These plans had been delayed and he was happy for us to carry out investigations and let us come and go as we pleased.