Fantasy Island is ‘a collection of everyone’s shared experiences, but through their eyes’

New photo retrospective opens a window to more than five decades of Irish culture and history

Lucy Jackson and Joel Seawright during the Fantasy Island launch in Dublin on June 5 (Daniel James Photography)

Tessa Ndjonkou

It’s a Thursday evening in Dublin’s always-restless Temple Bar, and a small crowd has gathered around the entrance to arts bookshop, The Library Project.

From inside, emanates the thump of music, mingled voices and the smell of books.