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Dublin Tenements

  • 20-01-2011 2:13am
    #1
    jamesie_boy
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭


    What would it be like to live in one of them for a day?


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  • #2
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    After Fianna Fail sold us all out to pay off foreign billionaires that their developer and banker pals owe mountains of money to, I suspect we're all about to find out, and for a lot longer than a day.


  • #3
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    It was Fianna Fail who did a huge amount of work to clear them and start many social housing projects. A lot of these houses are still around, better built then the houses slapped up in the last decade

    Different party back then


  • #4
    jamesie_boy
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭jamesie_boy


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    It was Fianna Fail who did a huge amount of work to clear them and many huge social housing projects. A lot of these houses are still around, better built then the houses slapped up in the last decade

    Different party back then

    Appreciate the political stance on social housing and all but I'm thinking more along the lines of the actual habitat and what it's like to experience living in one. I haven't watched many documentaries or read any books relating to it at all.


  • #5
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I suppose it'd be like living in the Dublin forum.


  • #6
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    It was Fianna Fail who did a huge amount of work to clear them and start many social housing projects. A lot of these houses are still around, better built then the houses slapped up in the last decade

    Different party back then

    Were they fúck.
    I suggest you read this book, by Gay Byrne's old producer at RTE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_of_Morning
    It's effectively a novelisation of the stunts he saw Fianna Fail up to in the late Sixties in cahoots with property developers, throwing people out of tenaments and onto the street to make way for their pals' profits.
    This isn't the first time they've driven this country into the ground to line their pockets. Let's hope it's the last, though.


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  • #7
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I don't know what happened in the 1960's, I know more about the 1930's


  • #8
    Darlughda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    In fairness, the tenements of the 19th century to the early-mid 20th century in Dublin were the worst in Europe.

    The cholera, dysentry, tb and god knows what else disease were rampant in the Dublin inner city, you cannot compare our standard of living today with the rat and disease infested overcrowded slums of that time.


  • #9
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    jamesie_boy wrote: »
    What would it be like to live in one of them for a day?

    Pretty shitty I'd imagine.


  • #10
    jamesie_boy
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭jamesie_boy


    Einhard wrote: »
    Pretty sh**ty I'd imagine.

    No Sh*t!:p


  • #11
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    ffs, the mere mention of the word dublin has the country brigade jumping up with the usual 'dublin forum is that way' crap

    im sure cork, limerick, galway and other larger cities had tenements


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  • #12
    ArseBurger
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭ArseBurger


    Dublin Tenement Life


  • #13
    Darlughda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    ffs, the mere mention of the word dublin has the country brigade jumping up with the usual 'dublin forum is that way' crap

    im sure cork, limerick, galway and other larger cities had tenements

    Yeah, but not as bad, rat infested,disease infested and low mortality shocking rates as Dublin... so there!

    But yes, Admiral, you are so right, this thread wont be long being sent it's way (by ferociously outraged and offended culshies) to the bowels of the unread Dublin forum.


  • #14
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Darlughda wrote: »
    Yeah, but not as bad, rat infested,disease infested and low mortality shocking rates as Dublin... so there!

    But yes, Admiral, you are so right, this thread wont be long being sent it's way (by ferociously outraged and offended culshies) to the bowels of the unread Dublin forum.

    i didnt know this thread was a competition to see which city had the worst tenements


  • #15
    Darlughda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    i didnt know this thread was a competition to see which city had the worst tenements

    well, I am talking about history



    Maybe the OP means history will repeat itself??


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