Dublin 1911 A City in Distress

Dr. Ruth MacManus, Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter, Prof. Mary Daly, Dr. Paul Rouse, Dr. Joseph Brady, Dr. Jacinta Prunty speak in this 2011 MA Documentary about Dublin city in 1911.

[@bobcooter]

A bunch of people in the Corporation owning tenements in a housing crisis, I wonder if that racket is still in the same families these days. Amazing photos in this, the aerial shot of the G.P.O. is crazy, is that all the interior or is it another building behind it also? Great little film.

[@kitabwalli]

James Plunkett's 'Stumpett City' gives a wonderful depiction.

[@kabeja61]

A good short film with some great images. Thank you all concerned.

[@billding7073]

The Irish live in a wonderful, abiding state of tragedy which sustains them through temporary periods of joy.

[@johngilmore6688]

Having lived in both Ireland and America; both historically have had their difficulties with the British. Generally though, the Americans look forward, whilst the Irish look backwards, at what the British did to us.!

[@kristinebailey6554]

@@johngilmore6688 As an American of Irish descent I will never forget what the British have done in Ireland, in America, in India, or in any land they invaded and pillaged. The day I will get past it is the day they confess and say sorry. And don't you think it was easier for Americans to look ahead, having outnumbered and outsmarted the Brit's and kicked their butts out of our country? The Irish are still infested with Brit's in the north and that is tragic.

[@AfroGaz71]

​@@johngilmore6688to equate the two is to be ignorant of the historical difference.

[@RMS_Empress_of_IreIand]

Image of the old Port in Dublin brings me nostalgia.

[@grannykelly5799]

Nothing has changed only their clothes.

[@pmurphy4657]

And demographics

[@aconsideredopinion7529]

A great presentation but an over emphasis on blaming others. Ireland had political leaders who were representing their constituents in the parliament in London. They held the balance of power… ultimately we get the society that we vote for. The point about Irish politician s being corrupt is very relevant. Irish politician betrayed Irish people in exactly the same way as is occurring in 2022.

[@vinnysmith4748]

3.35 Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas, which translates as "the obedience of the citizens produces a happy city"

[@MarkAlbertKearney]

King George Vs great great great great Irish nephew Mark John David Albert Kearney Dublin April 13th 2024

[@ohmeowzer1]

Thank you

[@ikm64]

God I can still vaguely remember the "buildings" the "27 steps"...

[@brendanblake3824]

from Summerhill down to Gloucester street to Lady of Lourdes Tin Church where i was Baptised 82 years ago many the time i ran 27 steps as my granny Josephine Loftus nee Fox lived in 112 Summerhill Tenement MYSELF I WAS BORN IN 18 upper Buckingham street (some doors from O"Toole"s pawn shop where my mother hung my fathers suit and shoes from monday morning till saturday lunch time me ma swore OTOOLES LOOKED AFTER them better than we could because they had hangers and me da only needed the suit and shoes for mass on sunday) ,and corner of Empress place , me ma and da got married in the tin chapel(the chapel was dismantled and erected else in Ireland anyone know where im sure they put notice up on new Lourdes Chapel but i cant remember} and the Gloucester diamond ,my parents had 18 children starting in1927 {3 sisters died before the age of 3 and 2 boys still births by 1939, one more sister died in 2011 ) so i'm left with 9 brothers and two sisters the youngest been 68 years old and oldest will be 93 next birthday ,and none of us are in care homes or hospital at time of typing thank God .my father died at age 72 and my mother died age 87 so you can see tenement dwellings were not good for raising children , when we left the tenement in 1939 , the last child born there in 1939 died 2 years later from diphtheria

[@SagaLarton]

He wouldint of pissed in Mountjoy in 1911. The event opens one of the greatest Novels about Dublin in that period; James Plunkets Strumpet City.

[@reddwing4368]

I thought Glasgow was the Second city???

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

It was indeed at that time.

[@CradaOC]

Funny how things hardly change

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

I bet you never were without shoes, food, or a job. Ireland and its people have one of the highest standards of living in Europe and the world, we are almost a welfare state but that still doesn't satisfy the socialists who never tire of spending someone else's hard earned money. There is a housing shortage because people in government and the public service haven't got the courage to admit as a small partitioned island we can't take all the world's problems and refugees on to our own national and domestic problems. No one supported us or wanted to know us during the fight for freedom, now they see us as a soft touch for easy money.

[@Loagun]

I highly doubt these slums were any worse than those found in 'Britain' at the same time (or earlier in history)

[@johnboylan3591]

They weren't and that's YOUR British empire

[@pmurphy4657]

But remember they still all have white privilege

[@jasminemuldoon171]

what is the music used at the end credits pls?

[@Po1itica11yNcorrect]

Jasmine Muldoon: Promentory by Trevor Jones

[@andrewg.carvill4596]

13.47: The man in the background at the railway depot looks very like James Connolly......

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

This was British rule in Ireland at its very best.

[@malahammer]

was never the "best".

[@Lar308]

The Brits have a lot to repent for over their imperialist past.

[@johnnybs7]

when you say 'the brits' mate remember youre talking about the british GOVERNMENT - the royalty, the upper echelons of society. The british working people were suffering just as much and knew nothing about 'imperialism' - the british working classes now continue to suffer as millions of black and Asian immigrants are loaded into their areas as a result of that same imperialism and vicious, corrupt government. The irish who have a grudge against the 'brits' could do well to remember this......

[@izzymeadows1748]

What the hell are you talking about? The brits!!?!? Listen you idiot, working class are working class no matter whether you were/ are in Ireland or uk. How dare you. My great grandma and grandma live in the exact same abject poverty as what is portrayed in this video but in Liverpool England. My grandma had 9 kids, a good catholic women, 5 kids died.She died from sheer exhaustion and diseases and starvation . How dare you claim to know that we didn’t suffer. The uk government did not and does not represent the populations of the uk. They are made up of rich, upper class, privileged people. The rest of the uk was struggling just like this. London, Manchester all the cities had terrible poverty and disease. Go educate yourself you ignorant Person.

[@izzymeadows1748]

john marcus spot in. Just read your reply after I wrote mine. Literally I am fuming with rage about that comment above. I could weep with anger. All I can remember is the horror stories my grandma used to tell me, how it haunted her seeing her mother eats away through starvation. Of seeing her brothers and sister die, be bitten by rats, run around in no shoes, no beds, begging for food. I can’t not believe people can be so ignorant.

[@Mrlittlelegz]

Remember the past don’t live in it.

[@patrickball2493]

@@izzymeadows1748 AH BUT THE POVERTY AND TOTAL LACK OF JOBS IN IRELAND AT TIME WAS A WORSE THAN INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN. IRELAND WAS MAINLY AGARIAN SOCIETY WITH FEW INDUSTRIES.

[@ingenuity168]

It's a sin for poor people to have children.

[@cupcakefairy87]

Hence the current depopulation plan

[@jaelkalashnikov3833]

Wow. I pity you....smh

[@ingenuity168]

@@jaelkalashnikov3833 And I pity you.

[@erikaobrien.2643]

Whats a sin?

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

Why? If Dublin was "the second city of the Empire" why weren't those poor people living in decent conditions with plenty of food and a job? In today's Ireland if a woman doesn't want a child for any reason she has the right under law to kill that baby in her womb up to three months old. Looks like we are moving backwards instead of forward. The right to life is the basic of all human rights, although the socialists will say"not so". They are the same people who will complain if a tree is cut down or a bed of snails is disturbed during the building of a new motorway. Sad isn't it?

[@SuperDonegal1]

Dublin2024 city in distress

[@johnmc3862]

How so?

[@SuperDonegal1]

@@johnmc3862 if u have to ask

[@malahammer]

Nothing like 1911, cop on buddy!