I nostri più poveri 50 anni fa, mi chiedo cosa sia successo a queste famiglie.
di XrvguErvyyl
I nostri più poveri 50 anni fa, mi chiedo cosa sia successo a queste famiglie.
di XrvguErvyyl
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What caught my ear was the last comment from the council.
Reporter – “is there anything could be done for people living in fairly appalling conditions”
Council – “there’s nothing to be done, except provide them with alternative housing”
50 years later and that’s still ringing through today for people in this country.
Mr Flanagan reminds me of Bertie when he lies
Not a bother on the Landlord Mr Flanagan, taking rent off folks for those paper boxes
That’s worse than some of the slums in Dublin at the time
*(I did giggle at the amount of kids coming out of one caravan, 6 kids, 2 adults in that tiny space !)*
“Mr and Mrs Ryan, and their 6 children”. The cynic in me might think, that similar to today, there’s a view that having higher numbers, gets you more.
I grew up in in the inner city in a two bedroom terrace
Outdoor outhouse, tin bath, my grandparents in one bedroom, my parents, me and two siblings in another, (I shudder thinking about how I got to have siblings).
My friends down the road lived in a tenement. One room, two parents, two brothers.
“Kitchen” in one corner, brothers bunks in another, parents mattress on the ground in another & the other corner was their storage, bag of coal, possessions, sack of spuds etc. their outhouse was three floors down and shared. Many families in that house
It’s living memory. The last of the tenements residents were in the early 80s and now it’s starting again with refugees and immigrants.
Their great grandkids are probably stabbing people in parks and stealing their bikes.