20th Century Dublin - old photos, maps, etc.

Collapsed tenement buildings on Church Street in the north inner city, September 1913

Seven people were killed in the tragedy which highlighted the appalling living conditions in slums for over one third of Dublin's population at the time.

"These bricks were returning once more to dust, one by one these walls would bulge outwards, crack, collapse into rubble. They were despised and uncared for, like the tenants they sheltered, who lived for the most part on bread and tea and bore children on rickety beds to grow up in the same hardship and hunger".

James Plunkett, Strumpet City (1969)

Credit: Dublin City Photo Archive

Crown Alley, Temple Bar, 1974

The former Central Bank building is under construction in the background.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana in concert at the Top Hat, Dun Laoghaire, August 1991

Declassified US KH-7 reconnaissance satellite photo of Dublin Port, February 1966

Grafton Street during its first trial pedestrianisation, October 1971

Moore Street, 1972

Ballymun, 1968

Photo of city centre from Busarus, 1968

Hare Krishna devotees chanting at O'Connell Bridge, 1973

Aerial photo of Greenhills, 1975

Greenhills Road runs from right to left in upper third of the image.

The M50 motorway runs right through the middle of this location today; note the new factories in Ballymount in the upper part of the photo, new housing under construction in the very large Kilnamanagh estate in Tallaght to the LHS and the recently built Green Park estate to the right.

Tymon Lane runs along the bottom half of the image.