Cleansing Rural Dublin: Public Health and Housing Initiat...
Cullen, Frank The slum condition in nineteenth-century Dublin is a well-documented feature of the citys past. As a result, much is now known of the overcrowded tenements and their poverty stricken inhabitants. However, yet another community existed in Dublin at this time, which also suffered the indignation of poverty and disease, yet little is known of their plight. These were Dublins rural poor, an agricultural community populating the townlands and villa...