{"id":559,"date":"2011-07-06T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T23:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:05:36","slug":"bob-dentons-photos-of-martin-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2011\/07\/06\/bob-dentons-photos-of-martin-doyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Denton\u2019s Photos Of Martin Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_563\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-563\" title=\"Martin Doyle portrait - by Bob Denton.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/martin-doyle-bdphoto.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Doyle portrait by Bob Denton\" width=\"250\" height=\"215\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Doyle portrait &#8211; by Bob Denton.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A number of photographs have just been added to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tindoyflu\/\">Martin Doyle&#8217;s Photostream on Flickr<\/a>. They were taken by Bob Denton who has been Martin&#8217;s friend since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"Bob Denton | Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bobdenton.az\">Bob Denton<\/a> is a photographer and musician who plays guitar, mandolin, claw hammer banjo and tin whistle. Originally from South Africa, Bob is credited with starting the Barleycorn Music Club on Woodbridge Island, Cape Town, in 1975. He also comp\u00e8red and performed at many South African Folk Festivals.<\/p>\n<p>In the realm of photography, Bob worked for Deegan Photo on Leeson Street in <a title=\"Dublin | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dublin\">Dublin<\/a> during the early 1970s and took the photo of the <a title=\"Book of Kells  | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Kells\">Book of Kells<\/a> which was used on the one and five punt notes in Ireland. He also took many of the photographs for the Doors of Dublin poster originally produced by Borde Failte.<\/p>\n<p>Bob first met Martin Doyle when he moved to <a title=\"Bray | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bray,_County_Wicklow\">Bray<\/a> in <a title=\"County Wicklow | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Wicklow\">County Wicklow<\/a> in the early 1970s. Martin, a native of Bray, had just begun to play the banjo and he and Bob would play together regularly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_573\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-573\" class=\"size-full wp-image-573\" title=\"Bob Denton with his trusty banjo and Doolin t-shirt! (Photo credit: Bob's Facebook page.)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bob-denton.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Denton\" width=\"624\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bob-denton.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bob-denton-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Denton with his trusty banjo and Doolin t-shirt! (Photo credit: Bob&#8217;s Facebook page.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>View Bob&#8217;s photographs here: <a title=\"Bob Denton's photos of Martin Doyle \u2013 February, 2011 | Flute Maker Martin Doyle's Photostream | Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tindoyflu\/sets\/72157627003415949\/\">Bob Denton&#8217;s photos of Martin Doyle \u2013 February, 2011 \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of photographs have just been added to Martin Doyle&#8217;s Photostream on Flickr. They were taken by Bob Denton who has been Martin&#8217;s friend since the 1970s. Bob Denton is a photographer and musician who plays guitar, mandolin, claw hammer banjo and tin whistle. Originally from South Africa, Bob is credited with starting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,9,3,147],"tags":[327,14,23,52,36,328,84,25,112,329,26,330],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flute-making","category-irish-flutes","category-martin-doyle","category-recently-added","tag-bob-denton","tag-county-clare","tag-flute","tag-flutes","tag-irish","tag-liscannor","tag-maker","tag-martin-doyle","tag-musician","tag-photographer","tag-wooden","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}