Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History.
Author: KEARNS, Kevin C.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1996. 237 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
The classic account of the Dublin slums is now available in paperback. Few books about Dublin have been so widely praised in recent times.
“This is truly an admirable book, capturing echoes of a vanished world with vanished assumptions, vanished pieties, vanished aspirations. It is only by reading this book that I was enabled to re-imagine the society which the respondents recalled to Kevin Kearns during the course of what must have been many hundreds of hours of patient interviewing.”
Kevin Myers, The Irish Times
“This book confirmed what I had always believed: Dublin in the rare old times was a rat-infested, overcrowded, unhygienic battle for the one-third of the capital’s heroic population who lived in one room — in the worst slums in Europe…
“This book will long stand as the definitive social history of Ireland’s gulags, where the poor were herded together in conditions worse than animals and will hopefully serve as further inspiration to those who still campaign for decent housing for all our citizens.”
Joe Duffy, Sunday Press
ISBN: 0717124681
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