Column: ‘A tragedy of the very poor’ – Remembering the 1913 Church Street disaster
On this day, September 2nd, 1913, two tenement buildings collapsed without warning on the horrifically overcrowded Church Street in Dublin, leading to the deaths of residents who had been living in “perfectly hellish” conditions, writes James Curry.
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