In moving the bill the Lord Chancellor, F.E. Smith, explained that it was largely urban in its focus as the issue of rural housing in Ireland had been dealt with separately under the Labourer Acts ...

Poor living conditions are also central, according to an address by Dublin doctor, Dr Falkner, to a meeting of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, to the fact that, every week ...

Four years earlier, the decision had been made to build the station on a former slum area of the city dubbed 'Little Ireland'. Between 1827 and 1847, the four-acre district lay just south of the area ...