Blog of Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

Our lensman pal Dónal McCann opened his compelling exhibition on my mayoral year at the Golden Thread Gallery on Thursday night as part of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s.

Dónal took 10,000 pictures on the trail with me but reduced that number to around 600 for his website, to 65 for the exhibition catalogue and to just 24 for the gallery walls.

You can see the final two dozen yourself at the Golden Thread Gallery throughout this month but consider yourself invited to the launch of the catalogue — which has a preface by veteran Belfast journo Deric Henderson — on Saturday 18 October.

That doyen of Belfast journalism Ivan Little penned words to accompany a selection of Dónal’s photos for a special Belfast Telegraph spread.

Dónal, a West Belfast man, is a master-photographer and his pictures speak to the true spirit of Belfast.

To read more, please click HERE.