A Sporting Eye

In the 1950s, while still competing as an international athlete, Fionnbar Callanan began photographing his fellow athletes. For more than half a century since then, he has viewed the sporting and wider world through the lens of a camera. In the process, he has amassed a vast and wide-ranging collection of outstanding photographs. The seminal sporting moments and exceptional sportsmen and women captured over those years are contained in this book. Irish and international sport stars from Sonia O'Sullivan and Mick O'Connell to Michael Johnnson and Tiger Woods rub shoulders with others from the worlds of athletics, Gaelic football, hurling, soccer, rugby, showjumping and golf. Fionnbar Callanan's encyclopedic knowledge of and love for both sport and photography will make this a timeless treasure trove for sports lovers and photographers everywhere.