A pint is raised toward the camera, a cigarette poised between manicured fingers, and beneath a sweep of platinum blonde hair a never-before-seen 19-year-old Maura Higgins fixes the lens with magnificent self-possession.
Standing between her protective older brother Jamie and one of his friends, she wears a tiny black dress with a silver satin panel. Even through the hard flash of a pocket camera, Maura is unmistakably the focus.
The images, taken in 2010 during one of many nights spent with Jamie and his friends around the St Matthew’s estate in Ballymahon, could hardly be further removed from the Maura that America
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