Resistance Images 1963
Mariga Guinness campaigning to save Georgian houses at Mountjoy Square. 1963
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A reminder of a previous housing crisis.
Two tenements collapsing within weeks of each other in June 1963 forced Dubliners to re-examine the housing situation in the city, and sparked a huge inquiry into housing in the city which delivered many shocking finds. It also saw hundreds of families moved out of their homes at short notice, for fear further collapses could be imminent. The panic began on June 2nd, when two elderly Dubliners were killed on Bolton Street when a four-story tenement home collapsed, trapping them under the rubble and wounding seven other occupants of the house.
Two tenements collapsing within weeks of each other in June 1963 forced Dubliners to re-examine the housing situation in the city, and sparked a huge inquiry into housing in the city which delivered many shocking finds. It also saw hundreds of families moved out of their homes at short notice, for fear further collapses could be imminent. The panic began on June 2nd, when two elderly Dubliners were killed on Bolton Street when a four-story tenement home collapsed, trapping them under the rubble and wounding seven other occupants of the house.
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Houses collapse at 3/4 Fenian Street, Dublin
12 June 1963
Houses collapse at 3/4 Fenian Street, Dublin. Firefighters sift through the rubble. Two young girls, Marie Vardy (9) and Linda Byrne (8), were killed in the collapse and one man, Andrew Dent, jumped for his life from the collapsing building.
12 June 1963
Houses collapse at 3/4 Fenian Street, Dublin. Firefighters sift through the rubble. Two young girls, Marie Vardy (9) and Linda Byrne (8), were killed in the collapse and one man, Andrew Dent, jumped for his life from the collapsing building.
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