{"id":49,"date":"2015-07-21T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makingofdublincity.com\/dublin\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:01:23","slug":"dublin-1910-1940","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historydublin.com\/dublincity\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"Dublin 1910-1940 – Shaping the City and Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the twentieth century Dublin faced a housing crisis of enormous proportions.\u00a0 While the middle and upper classes lived comfortable lives in the independent townships, much of the population of Dublin city lived in wretched accommodation.\u00a0 The city authorities had been slow to come to the view that they had any responsibility in the matter and by the beginning of the twentieth century the problem was almost beyond management.\u00a0 Progress was impeded by the events of 1916 and the subsequent years of political instability and it was the middle of the 1920s before Dublin Corporation embarked in any significant way on its programme of housing renewal and housing construction for the working classes.<\/p>\n

This is the focus of Ruth McManus in her text as she explores how Dublin Corporation built during the period 1910-1940.\u00a0 She examines the influences on the builders and discusses the major schemes in considerable detail.\u00a0 It was not just Dublin Corporation who was building in the city.\u00a0 The middle classes were also being catered to by a variety of private builders.\u00a0 However, McManus shows that it was a simple cases of ‘public’ and ‘private’ housing but that there was a complex inter-relationship between the public and private building.<\/p>\n

The book has been described as the definitive work on housing in Dublin during this period.<\/p>\n

A new edition was published in November 2021.\u00a0 It contains a powerful poem by Dermot Bolger in commemoration of Herbert Simms, the first city housing architect<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/td>\nDublin, 1910\u20131940
\nShaping the city and suburbs
\nRuth McManus
\nPaperback \u20ac19.95
\nISBN: 978-1-84682-983-3
\nNovember 2021. 512pp; ills.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"xcover-2\"<\/a><\/td>\nFIRST EDITION (OUT OF PRINT)
\nDublin, 1910\u20131940
\nShaping the city and suburbs
\nRuth McManus
\nPaperback \u20ac26.95
\nISBN: 1-85182-712-9
\nDecember 2002. 512pp; ills.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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