Behind The Headlines - Dublin Housing: Then and Now

Recorded October 11, 2018.

As Ireland emerges from the economic crash and austerity which ensued, Dublin’s housing issues have escalated. In cooperation with the Trinity Long Room Hub’s Behind the Headlines discussion series, this session will take a broad temporal view on Dublin’s housing issues over the decades.

Contributors will include Paula Mayock, Assistant Professor at Trinity’s School of Social Work and Social Policy and author of Living in Limbo: Homeless Young People’s Paths to Housing, Ronan Lyons, Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity, Charles Duggan, Heritage Officer with Dublin City Council and lead on the restoration of 14 Henrietta Street, the inner city’s most intact tenement building, and Lisa Griffith, Programme Manager at Digital Repository of Ireland and author of Dublin Then and Now.

Trinity and the Changing City is organised by the Identities in Transformation research theme , led by Tom Walker, School of English, Daniel Faas, Department of Sociology, and Sarah Kerr , Trinity Long Room Hub, and is supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

Learn more about the Trinity Long Room Hub: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/