Housing Memories 1940s
Mary Aikenhead House, James's Street Dublin, complete with bomb shelters, sick bays and space for accommodating single beds on balconies.
Co-archived Ireland Old and New
A photograph titled ‘the last of the old Claddagh’ taken in 1940. The Claddagh (Irish: ‘an Cladach’, meaning the shore), near Galway city, was formerly a fishing village which included many old-style thatched homes, most of which had been in the possession of the same Irish-speaking family for generations. The Claddagh was home to a large fleet of fishing boats. Traditionally, the residents of The Claddagh would take the day’s catch across the River Corrib to an open-air fish market in Galway where it was sold. The original village was torn down in the 1930s following a government assessment which deemed most of the thatched structures unfit for human habitation. The village was replaced by a local council housing scheme. The print appeared in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1940) at p. 357 which can be read online.
Co-archived Capuchin Archives, Ireland
Mourne Road Drimnagh 1940s.
Co-archived Fintan Tandy
Short clip of a recording I made with Sean Garland in 2011. Here, Sean talks of growing up in a Dublin tenement in the 1930s and 1940s.
Co-archived Conor McCabe
Weavers Square Dublin 1940s.
Co-archived Dublin Tenement LIFE
1940s, A young girl selling fruit outside dilapidated tenements houses on Waterford Street off Gardiner Street Dublin. Waterford Street is no more. It was redeveloped in the late 1980s / 90s with apartments offices and a College. Larking Community College.
Co-archived Dublin Tenement LIFE
Co-archived Dublin Tenement LIFE
Tenement Living: Paying the rent money to a Landlord late 1940s. A tenement room was three shillings a week. It all depended on where you were living. The Landlord or his agent called for the rent money. People hand him the money and rent book. He marked in the payment. Most landlords who owned the slum tenements, never gave people rent books. They just came calling at anytime to the tenement house for their rent money. Some landlords came with hankies covering their noses and mouths, because they couldn't stand the smell inside the tenements they owned. Photo a rent book and three shilling, the price of a tenement room.
1940s. Corporation Buildings off Corporation Street (Renamed James Joyce Street).
Co-archived Dublin Tenement LIFE