Fantastic Archive Photos On Cleary’s New Facebook Page

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Martin and Sean Cleary putting up old photographs on their new Facebook page ‘Clearysphoto Archive’.

IF you’re from Tralee and on Facebook you may have noticed a lot of old photos cropping up on your timeline over the past few days.

That’s because John and Martin Cleary set up the ‘Clearysphoto Archive’ page on Wednesday which is uploading some great archive photos from the last six decades. The page is becoming hugely popular with hundreds of people sharing them.

They’re being uploaded from the website, clearysphotoarchive.com which has thousands of images spanning nearly 50 years taken by photographer John Cleary.

“We put it up as a personal page rather than a business page and we’ve over 600 ‘friends’ since we started it on Wednesday morning,” said Martin, when we visited the shop on Russell Street.

“We have about half a million negatives upstairs here. It dates back to 1967. We’ve scanned 20,000 photos so far, at random, and we’re going to scan another 30,000 over the next 18 months. They’re from sports events, dinner dances, confirmations, communions, anything that went into The Kerryman during his time there and from personal work,” said Martin.

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A photo of a juvenile Mitchels team from the 1970s on the ‘Clearysphoto Archive’ Facebook page.

“Most of the photos on the Facebook page are of Tralee people, but we’ll branch out to other parts of the county in time,” he said.

“There’s some cracking photographs of people from years gone by. We have some interesting shots of Tralee streets from the 1970s that we’ll put up soon as well,” he said.

If you want to find out more and see some great archive shots click here and ask to be their ‘friend’.

Scroll down to see a selection of photos from the archive…

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A group of Tralee Irish dancers from the 1980s on the ‘Clearysphoto Archive’ Page.

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Anyone for ice-cream. A photo taken in the 1980s.

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Who are these fine looking ‘ladies’, taken at the Mother Goose panto at Siamsa Tire in 1987.

 

 

One Comment

  1. Hi Martin and Sean I worked in Dennys in Tralee from 1972 -1979 I collected at the gate for Gortha with Eileen O Sullivan and Breeda Cleary for years We were on the front page of the Kerryman it could be around 1976-1979 I would really appreciate if you could find any one of me Thanks also I was in Nazareth home for 13 years if you have any Love your page

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