100 Years of Irish Radio | Deirdre Brennan at Trieste Photo Days, Trieste (Italy)

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Exhibition runs 23/10/26-15/11/26.

Deirdre Brennan’s series “100 Years of Irish Radio” is on exhibition in Trieste as part of Trieste Photo Days Festival.

A series of street portraits celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first radio broadcast in Ireland.
Public broadcasting in Ireland began at 7:45pm on 1 January 1926, when station 2RN made its first transmission, laying the foundations for what would later become RTÉ. To mark this centenary, I photographed people on the street holding a vintage radio while speaking about what radio means to them and their love of listening.
I was delighted to encounter so many young people, and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, who