Life in the Slums of 18th Century Dublin | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:02:35 The Two Dublins 00:07:56 Tenements 00:13:58 What the Poor Did to Live 00:21:20 Food and Hunger 00:28:05 Disease and Death 00:34:04 Crime and the Law 00:39:45 Drink and the Tavern 00:44:44 Religion and Community 00:49:57 What Survives Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @asmr_historian   Support the channel on Patreon:   / asmrhistorian   Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Swift, Jonathan. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents or the Country (1729). Dickson, David. Dublin: The Making of a Capital City (2014). Profile Books. Warburton, J., Whitelaw, J., and Walsh, R. History of the City of Dublin (1818). 2 vols. Kelly, James. "Jonathan Swift and the Irish Economy in the 1720s." Eighteenth-Century Ireland, vol. 6 (1991). Crawford, E. Margaret. "Food and Famine." In Cathal Poirtéir, ed., The Great Irish Famine (1995). Mercier Press. Prunty, Jacinta. Dublin Slums 1800–1925: A Study in Urban Geography (1998). Irish Academic Press. Zimmermann, Georges-Denis. Songs of Irish Rebellion: Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs, 1780–1900 (1967). Allen Figgis. Luddy, Maria. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1995). Cambridge University Press. Barnard, Toby. A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649–1770 (2003). Yale University Press. Whelan, Kevin. "The Catholic Community in Eighteenth-Century County Wexford." In T.P. Power and Kevin Whelan, eds., Endurance and Emergence: Catholics in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (1990). Irish Academic Press. Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.