Arson and apocalypse: the best of PhotoIreland festival 2013 – in pictures

Doug DuBois, photographs from his book, My Last Day at Seventeen
DuBois's book focuses on youth on a housing estate in Cobh, County Cork Photograph: Doug DuBois

Doug DuBois, photographs from his book, My Last Day at Seventeen Photograph: Light Work AIR2/PR

Doug DuBois, photographs from his book, My Last Day at Seventeen Photograph: Doug DuBois

Doug DuBois, photographs from his book, My Last Day at Seventeen Photograph: Doug DuBois

David Galjaard, from his self-published photobook, Concresco
For the Concresco project, Galjaard photographed some of the 700,000 communist concrete bunkers in Albania Photograph: David Galjaard

David Galjaard, from his self-published photobook, Concresco Photograph: David Galjaard

David Galjaard, from his self-published photobook, Concresco Photograph: David Galjaard

Yvette Monahan, from the series The Time of Dreaming the World Awake, 2012
Monahan shot apocalypse-seekers on Bugarach, a mountain in the south of France where, according to Mayan prophecies, a new Arcadia was set to rise again after the end of the world in 2012 Photograph: Yvette Monahan

Yvette Monahan, from the series The Time of Dreaming the World Awake, 2012 Photograph: Yvette Monahan

Linda Brownlee, from the series Achill, 2012
Brownlee joined a community of teens living on this island in County Mayo, and captured the otherness of the place they inhabit Photograph: Linda Brownlee

Linda Brownlee, from the series Achill, 2012 Photograph: Linda Brownlee

Linda Brownlee, from the series Achill, 2012 Photograph: Linda Brownlee

Paul Gaffney, from the series We Make the Path By Walking, 2012
Gaffney's enigmatic shots show his state of mind while walking 3,500km (2,175 miles) on foot through rural Spain, Portugal and the south of France Photograph: Paul Gaffney

Paul Gaffney, from the series We Make the Path By Walking, 2012 Photograph: Paul Gaffney

Shane Lynam, from the series Contours, 2010-2012
Lynam's series creates a 'fictional green belt around Paris' and shows the optimism with which Paris suburbs were originally designed Photograph: Shane Lynam

Shane Lynam, from the series Contours, 2010-2012 Photograph: Shane Lynam