SNIPPET: Dorothea LANGE, native of Hoboken, NJ, world-famous photojournalist for "LIFE" magazine and best known for her images (many of which sold for thousands) of the Depression in the USA, was captivated by the Irish people who she found "rooted to the land." Her photoessay "Irish Country People," containing 19 images of the people of Co. Clare in the 1950s, appeared in the March 21, 1955, issue of that magazine - the text written by her son, Daniel DIXON. Although elderly and ill at the time, Dorothea had convinced the editors of "LIFE" to send her on assignment to Ireland after reading a book about the country and its people. Until the day she died in 1965, Ms LANGE kept photos of Ireland pinned to her studio wall and to a corkboard in her kitchen. "Look at that face," she'd say, of an image of an Irish girl smiling in the rain, "Isn't that a beautiful face?" Snapping an old man approaching on a lonely road, she had explained, "That's pure Ireland. He was just made out of that wet limey soil - Made out of it!" Dorothea also kept in touch with many of the subjects of her photos. Years after her death, writer Gerry MULLINS discovered more examples of her work in the archives of the Oakland Museum in CA. A book containing 100 such images was published circa 1995 -- "Dorothea Lange's Ireland."