'Dancing Mary' (Mary Dunne) and the 'Man on the Bridge' (Arthur Fields). Once two of the most recognisable characters in the O'Connell Street area of Dublin. Arthur Fields (1901-1994) was a Ukrainian born Irish street photographer, who took more than 180,000 photographs of pedestrians on O'Connell Bridge for over more than 50 years Mary Dunne (1927-2014) an always smiling, elegant woman who used to dance in the centre of the capital’s main thoroughfare as the world would pass around her.
The 'Man on the Bridge' & 'Dancing Mary'
17 Sep, 2020