Death in The Dublin Slums

Obscure Ireland With Peter · Aug 3, 2025 · 35m

In 1913 Dublin was a city in turmoil. Riddled with relentless poverty and row after row of filthy and dilapidated tenement housing the formerly grand Georgian Streets that had been the playground of the Anglo Irish Ascendency became a death trap for the 1000s of working class families that now lived in overcrowded homes built for the elite landowning overlords of Ireland. Every day the residents of Dublin's tenements faced disease, death and hunger in the eye and the year of 1913 would see their bones broken by the masonry of their decrepit homes and the batons of the Dublin Metropolitan…