Northern Irish
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photographer and radio broadcaster. He won the Northern Ireland Provincial Press Photographer of the Year Award for himself and the '' Down Recorder'' newspaper of Downpatrick,
County Down
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, in 1985, 1986, and 1987. He also won the Northern Ireland overall award for "Best People Picture" in 1985 and 1987. These were the only three years that he entered the competitions. His work has also been exhibited at Down County Museum. His photographs have appeared in ''
The Sunday Times
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'' and he writes a weekly column featuring his photographs for the ''Down Recorder''.
Personal life
Hanvey was born in
Brookeborough
Brookeborough (; Irish: ''Achadh Lon'', meaning 'Field of the Blackbirds') is a village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, at the westerly foot of Slieve Beagh. It lies about eleven miles east of Enniskillen, just off the A4 trunk road, and ...
,
County Fermanagh
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. His autobiography,'' The Mental'', describes everyday life in Fermanagh during the 1950s and charts his time as a psychiatric nurse in the
Downshire Hospital
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in Downpatrick during the 1960s. He lives in Downpatrick and has three children: Steafán, Ciarán, and Sarah Ann.
Radio
Hanvey has been hosting his popular programme, ''The Ramblin' Man'', on Downtown Radio since the late 1970s. Guests on his programme have included Ulster Volunteer Force leader
Gusty Spence
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Provisional Irish Republican Army
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Royal Ulster Constabulary
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Sir Hugh Orde
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. Other guests have included writers
Eugene McCabe
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J. P. Donleavy
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Hanvey is one of Ireland's foremost photographers. His first photographic book, ''Merely Players'', presents portraits taken since the 1970s of poets, playwrights, paramilitaries, priests, and politicians. They include
Brian Friel
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Gerry Adams
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Sammy Duddy
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Seamus Heaney
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, and others. His most recent photographic book, ''The Last Days of the RUC'', presents the only historic account of the transition of the Royal Ulster Constabulary to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
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