Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban GeographyBased on source materials ranging from public inquiries and property valuations to the records created by women charity workers, such as Margaret Aylward, the slum geography of the city is meticulously recreated in this thoroughly original book. The overlapping areas of contagious disease, slum housing and the support of the very poorest, the beggars and costermongers who daily thronged the city streets, form the three main areas of analysis. These issues are explored on scales ranging from city-wide to the local street or court, while the final case study examines the dynamic nature of slum creation and efforts at relief and reform in the particular context of the north city parishes of St. Mary's and St. Michan's. |
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Public Health 18001900 | 62 |
To Grasp the Housing Nettle Early Initiatives 18761900 | 109 |
153 | 135 |
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accommodation Alley Annual Report Association asylum beggars Board Charles Cameron Church Street City of Dublin city slums commissioners Coombe Court DADC disease district Dorset Street Drumcondra Dublin city Dublin Corporation Dublin slum Dublin Union Workhouse families Fever Hospital Figure Gardiner Street geography Gloucester Street Griffith's Valuation hereafter House of Industry Housing Inquiry 1885 Ibid improvement institution Ireland Irish Church Missions labour Ladies of Charity Lane London Margaret Aylward Mendicity Mountjoy Square municipal nineteenth century north city North Dublin Union Ormond Market outdoor relief paupers persons Place Poor Inquiry poor law poor relief poorest population poverty premises Protestant Prunty Public Health Committee Quay Ragged Schools residents River Liffey Roman Catholic RPDCD sanitary scheme slaughter houses slum social St Brigid's St Michan's Street Lower Street Upper tenement tenement dwellings tenement houses Townsend Street urban vagrancy Valuation women workhouse