Féile: The Trip to Tipp
Wally Cassidy

The book features pictures taken by Cassidy on the streets at the Féile festival in Thurles in the 1990s – which captured the magic and mayhem of the crowd. FÉILE was Ireland’s only largescale 3-day music festival in the early ‘90s, and a rite of passage for Irish teens, who flocked to see big-name acts take to the stage at Semple Stadium. Cassidy attended the early years of the festival, from 1990 to 1993. The resulting black and white photographs are a fascinating glimpse at a time both more innocent and more debauched. A lot of his images are anything but pretty: teens passed out on the streets of Thurles surrounded by empty beer cans, fights, couples kissing next to an overflowing skip.
It’s classic black and white street photography: keenly observed, snatched moments, charged with emotion and a subtle sense of humour. “It’s about those magical moments that nobody else has seen and no-one else is going to get again,” Cassidy says.

Wally Cassidy is a Dublin based street photographer, specialising in black and white imagery.

Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. It was originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not relying on ‘the gallery’. Café Royal Books publishes artist’s books and zines as well as a weekly series of photobook/zines. The photographic publications are part of a long ongoing series, generally working with photographers and their archives, to publish work, which usually falls into 1970–2000 UK documentary / reportage.