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Thursday, June 27, 2013

‘Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History’ by Kevin C. Kearns | The Resident Judge of Port Phillip

‘Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History’ by Kevin C. Kearns | The Resident Judge of Port Phillip: "Simply put, there exists no first-hand authentic chronicle of Dublin tenement life as experienced by one-third of the city’s population during the first half of this century…to reconstruct historical reality we must seek to record the personal “missing portions of the picture of life” within a social community. In the case of Dublin’s tenement enclaves what is conspicuously missing from the historical scene is credible verbal testimony about daily life patterns by those who were looking out from behind the grim brick walls….By contrast, the avowed purpose of this book is to create an authentic and wholly original chronicle of Dublin tenement community life based on the oral histories of the last surviving dwellers"?

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