Dublin Housing Crisis Features

Dublin, 4 February 1920 - The cost of rent has skyrocketed since the end of the war in 1918, and the scarcity of...

London, 25 July 1919 - The House of Lords has been told that before the government introduced an Irish housing bill, it...

Dublin, 25 February 1919 - The Chief Secretary of Ireland, Ian Macpherson, has said that discussions with the Treasury over potential solutions...

Dublin, 14 August 1918 - A major new housing initiative, which will cost £8,640,000 and deliver at least 16,500 additional dwellings for workers,...

Dublin, 21 May 1917 - Nine in every 100 Irish children die before the age of one. This stark fact was revealed in...

Dublin, 26 January 1917 - A special prize of £500 in respect of the planning of Dublin, donated by then Lord Lieutenant...

Westminster, 11 January 1917 - The British Government has confirmed that it intends to offer full compensation to people whose property was...

Dublin, 21 November 1916 - The failure to develop a suitable transport system is at the heart of Dublin’s ongoing...

Dublin, 21 October 1916 - Seven housing schemes planned for Dublin have been stalled due to the inability of Dublin Corporation to...

Pembroke, 14 September 1916 - A new housing scheme in the Dublin suburb of Pembroke was opened today. The scheme cost £125,000...

Westminster, 10 August 1916 - The Dublin Reconstruction Bill which was supposed to be passed by the House of Commons in London...

A letter of recommendation for an architect appointed as part of a team to rebuild Dublin after the damage done...

The 1916 Easter Rising damaged a variety of public and professional buildings and spaces in Dublin. Much of this destruction followed...

This morning, masses at 8 o'clock and 10 o'clock were celebrated for the dead at St Michan's Church in...

There were horrific scenes on Dublin’s Church Street last night as bodies – injured, maimed and deceased -...

The inquest into the deaths of the six people who died in the tenement collapse at 66 and 67 Church Street opened...

Dublin, 14 December 1915 - The Church Street Disaster Committee has completed the distribution of funds subscribed for the relief of sufferers. ...

Dublin, 22 November 1913 - Arthur Griffith has launched a scathing attack on the Dublin Housing Inquiry, saying that he hoped &lsquo...

The British government has rejected demands that a Viceregal Commission be established to inquire into the issue of housing in...

Hearings into the proposed clearance of houses in the Church Street and Beresford Street area of Dublin continued today at...

An inquest has been opened into the seven deaths on Church Street. The deceased were named as: Hugh Salmon (17 years),...

It has left bodies broken, families fractured and a community in shock. But last night’s tragedy on Church...

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