it should first have brought forward a bill dealing specifically with Dublin, as its slums were ‘a disgrace to the United Kingdom’. That is the view of Lord Mayo who was speaking during the ...

and Dublin was at high risk of an outbreak due to its slums and tenements and poor sanitation - all of which provided an ideal breeding ground for bubonic plague. The Guardian newspaper in ...

The report of the Dublin Housing Inquiry has revealed that 14 sitting members of Dublin Corporation own tenement houses in the city. Several members of the Corporation own more than a dozen houses ...