Featured in this photo are the Blind Dunne Brothers, busking in the crowd in Newmarket during a championship match v @SMBGAA in 1954. During this era they were a fixture at every kind of event in Munster; fairs, markets, matches, parades. On any given day of the week you

might come across them at the Height in Ennis, in front of Woolworths in Limerick or outside Roches in Cork city. By all accounts they were fantastic musicians; Christy on banjo, Michael on fiddle. (And another brother, Hanta, not pictured) In an era where recorded music was

still very rare, the raw live experience of their music made a huge impression on many Trad players who would go on to find fame in the 1970s and '80s. The Dunnes however played no concert halls. They lived hand to mouth, collecting coppers in a small velvet bag. Though not fully

blind, each of them was only partially sighted due to cataracts. Michael’s were the most severe. They took up his pupils entirely, and his eyes are all one colour, a milky grey. This remarkable photograph was one of 70 taken at that match by one of the all-time great photographer

Dorothea Lange. Her most celebrated work is of rural poverty in the America of the Depression era. Then in September 1954 she spent a month in Co. Clare and took about 2000 photos for Life Magazine. We featured an extensive selection of them in last year's edition of

Tradrai (a few copies are still available, text Colm 0868035319). We will post a few more over the coming days.