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Find your local expert today at H.r Dept.co. UK. We all at some point or another have been absorbed by photographs from the past. There's something about the grainy faces looking back at you

from a picture taken 120 years ago. Every single person in the photograph may have passed on but you still have a glimpse into their world.

I think we also have a perception that the camera never lies or at least it's a more truthful representation of the past than say a diary or written account from the time.

Now there's no doubt written accounts from the past present a biased view of things, but a few weeks ago I visited the Irish photographic archive to make this episode on the history of photography in Ireland, and it certainly changed my mind about photographs.

Now there are millions of images in the National Photographic Archive. After finishing the episode I learned two things that this episode is based around.

One, that photography is way older than I thought, but also that the history of photography is a history of manipulating the past.

I was surprised at the extent of editing, basically a 19th century equivalent of

photoshopping that went on since photography first

emerged. This podcast explores not only the history of photography but also the

murky history of image manipulation.

Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.

My name is Finn Duwire. Now in today's show we'll be

meeting the archivist Nora Thornton to head behind the scenes in the National

Photographic Archive. Nora spends her days cataloging and analyzing the millions of photographs in their collections,

and in this show she will be taking us back to the dawn of modern photography in the 1830s nearly 200 years ago.

Before we join Nora in the archive, just two things I want to mention.

Next week's show is an interview with Dr. Ian Murphy on groundbreaking

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