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Monto Book. People looking for the book on Monto can order it online from Connolly Books in Temple Bar, Dublin. They do post & packaging. Here is the website link to Connolly Books.

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In a recorded interview with Mrs Byrne on tenement life in Dublin, 1930s. She recalled, “the local coal man use to offer families whose children died in the rooms to bring their dead child out to Glasnevin Cemetery, she recalled he would clean the coal of the dray & wait 1/6

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My mother was interviewed in her tenement room in Corporation Buildings 1960s by RTÉ. (photo Stills RTÉ) she told the interviewer she had “16 children.” Some had died young in the in the rat infested tenements. She told, she had a you son “locked up.” I was amazing, the RTÉ 1/6

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Having a pint with my brother (on the right) Hard to believe it’s over 50 years ago he was dressed up as a girl & on the run from the police after my father’s pal & myself rescued him from a 7 year sentence in some of Ireland’s most notorious industrial schools for young boys.

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Bugs in the Dublin tenements. “My father saved up some money, he decided to wallpaper our tenement room, for my mother. We were all excited. He couldn’t afford to buy wallpaper past, it was very expensive. Someone told him to used baking flour to make the past to stick the 1/9

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Down in Sheriff Street, Dublin this morning. I stopped to take this photo. A woman shouted to me, “that’s, Hungry Henry, that’s what I call him, he’s always around here begging for food of people.”

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1950s Corporation Buildings, Dublin. One of the most remarkable stories I ever recorded was from this man Dave Ruth. 1940. His mother had a visit from the notorious school inspector JJ Byrne inquiring why the children were not attending Rutland Street School, she pulled 1/11

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Beaver Street off Foley Street. According to one older residents, its the last of the Monto houses still standing. Used as a brush factory until 1980s. It would make a great inner city museum, we have a lot of tenement artefacts & audio recorded memories of Monto. #Monto

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Pauline. The last of the women still alive who hid children rescued from Ireland’s notorious industrial schools, 1960s. She bought my brother Christy a polka dot dress when he was dressed up as a girl to avoid capture by the police. Hoping to meet-up with her today for a chat.

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20 years ago I was walking along Sean MacDermott St when I got a phone call, an elderly woman was lost could I help. She came into Dublin looking for a tin church. (Long gone). Little did I know I would end taking her home. She had traveled to Ireland from England trying to 1/7

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I remember my pals & myself use to bring food to the elderly in the north inner city Dublin, 1970s. This photo reminds me what it looked like down in the basements in the tenements we visited. I recall the landlords rent book on the table & his rent money on top of the book.

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3 years

A 1916 Newspaper map layout of where the Easter Rising took place.

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“The notorious badge man” Young newsboys selling newspapers without a licence ran the risk of being caught by the badge man & brought to the children’s court in Dublin Castle & sent away for up to 7 years. The badge man was an undercover police man. He wore many disguises. 1/5

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The White Lady of Monto. As a young boy growing up in the tenements of Corporation Buildings in Dublin. I remember the woman known as the white lady, she was an elderly woman. She lived on the ground floor level. She stood at the entrance to room with her hand out holding 1/7

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Tommy Roper Many years ago 1980s I interviewed Tommy, he told me in a long interview how his father, a world war 1 hero died suddenly. His mother was evicted from her tenement room she even pawned some of his father’s medals to pay the rent. The landlord put the what little 1/14

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2 years

Road works uncover the old cobble stone street on the corner of the Gloucester Diamond on Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin. July 2022

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“In the 40s & 50s mothers brought their children to the dinner houses run by the nuns. They got fresh milk & rice, because children were undernourished, the mothers got the same off the nuns, they looked after families so they did. There was a lot of poverty in those days, 1/6

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Landlords moving quickly to get their tenants out. A family friend has received a notice to vacate her apartment. She has two children age 1 & 5; she trying to hold down her job & find another apartment before she ends up homeless; she has the hap payment. She's in bits.

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“ Our landlord, he would say as he stuck his hand out for his rent money, three shillings & sixpence. “What a lovely day it is, Mrs Ryan, what are you cooking today for the children.” “Ah the usual Mr Murray.” “It’s sheep’s head again is it Mrs,Ryan, I can smell it, I 1/5

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In 1990, we were given an empty Dublin City Council flat to store hundreds of tenement artefacts, along with old Dublin Corporation reports on housing, sickness, & deaths. Tenement conditions. Checks on local shops selling diluted milk and butter, butcher’s selling rotten 1/9

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his story of his rescue. The photo of him is a TV still from Channel 4 TV when he relived his rescue. It was the first time I’d seen him cry as he told his story. Photo of the children’s court in Dublin. There should be a plaque on that build to the memory of 1000s sent away.

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This was the black wooden cross that hung over the bed of a Monto madam, Mrs Higgins as she lay dying in her bed. (Mrs Higgins prison photo) She ran some brothels in Gloucester Lane off Railway Street & Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin. Gloucester Lane has since become part 1/5

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Took a walk over to children’s court in Dublin Castle with some pals, it gave me the creeps. I said to my pals I can still hear the screams of my mother as myself & other children were taking out of the lockup room & put into the back of the prison van. As we were driven 1/4

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Letters, posters & rent books, I rescued from going into rubbish skips. The letters of Mary Bruce 1900s are fantastic read about her life living in Dublin’s Stoneybatter. Mary was a theatrical actress in parish halls. She falls in love with a man, life is great, until 1/

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Dan Breen, one of the most wanted men in Ireland during the war of Irish independence. He gave a witness statement. In it he recalls the prostitutes of Monto, Dublin’s once famous red-light district, how they passed on information & guns into Phil Shanahan’s pub in Monto. 👇 1/7

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Myself, 1980, in the red teeshirt & pals on the way to the GPO canteen to collect food for the elderly in the north inner city. Note the tenements in Summerhill Dublin in the background. Many stories I collected from the elderly in those tenement rooms. Still collecting stories.

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Monto’s famous, “Man Trap Yard” was located next to Jack Mahar’s pub. The ladies of the night would be watching in the pub where clients had their money. They would bring them into the Man-Trap for sex. Once the man’s trousers were down around his ankles, they would make 1/3

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built in the 1930s, before the war. I stood & had one last look at the room. The wallpaper had almost gone from the walls by then. We went into new flat with no bugs. My father brought 2 good secondhand mattresses. We left behind the furniture that had wood worm” Mrs Ryan (end)

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The midwife of Monto Mrs Dunleavy She was a fearless woman who brought into the world children in a Dublin teeming with rat infested tenements with all sorts of diseases. No matter who the woman was she went to her aide. Women put out of the brothels in Monto by the Madams 1/6

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lives. We had running water & a toilet in the house.” I recorded lots of interviews on tenement life, some recalled landlords collecting rents with hankies up to their mouths & noses. They couldn’t stick the smell of the houses they owned. 6/6

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When I see old tenement photos with horse & drays. It reminds me of some of the interviews I did with women who lived in the tenements. Some recalled, the local coal-man coming around on his horse & dray selling coal. He’d inquired, any family want their dead child brought 1/5

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I remember 1970s I was interviewed an eldery man living on Summerhill, Dublin. “Do you know son the only old street lamp still standing that was there when the Germans bombed the North Strand & Summerhill?” Here it is today in the middle of the road on lower Summerhill. #Dublin

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“The woman next door to me in the tenements would ask me for a loan of me husbands suit to pawn it to pay her rent & get a bit of food for the children. My husband only wore his suit going to mass on Sunday. The woman would get his suit back out of the pawnshop on Saturday.” M.D

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Little did I know in the 1960s I would play a part in the rescue of my brother who was sentenced to Artane Industrial School for 7 years for stealing Rosary Beads from a Bead factory in the local area. I worked helping Jemmy along with a group of women hiding children 1/7

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@breeda_murphy My brother Christy 8 years was sentenced, 7 years, Artane Industrial School in 1964 for stealing Rosary Beads. He escaped & was captured & brought back. He was moved to Leterfrack & escaped & captured by local farmers. Moved to Tipperary we rescued him, spent 2 years on the run.

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Boys announcing Santa’s visit to the Dublin tenement. No year or location. In interviews I did on the Dublin tenements, some people recalled, the, “St Vincent DePaul man use to dress up as Santa going around the tenements visiting children”.

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The Monto mural on Foley Street Dublin is taken shape & it’s painted on some of the original brickwork of of the old Monto houses. Looking forward to getting back on the Monto walking tours on 25th March.

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1970s I first started to record on a cassette tape recorder peoples memories of Dublin they grew up in. It was amazing the stories they told me in their tenement rooms in Foley Street, Gardiner Street, Sean MacDermott Street, Summerhill, Rutland Street upper & Lower, 1/6

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This photo reminds me of Christmas time as a young boy living in the tenements of Corporation Buildings. I remember a few days before Christmas my pals & myself use to sit on the stairwells talking about what we were getting off Santa, everyone was getting cowboy suits & 1/11

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The man who helped children escape abusive 1970s Catholic institutions

Catholic bishops from all over the world are gathering in Rome ahead of the Vatican's first meeting to discuss child sexual abuse within the Church.

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“ A coalman use go around the tenements with his horse & dray asking" " Does anyone want help to bury their dead babies? He'd clean off the dray & the father of the dead baby would carry down a little white coffin & put it on the dray & go to Glasnevin grave yard." Mrs Kelly

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1970. Outside Costello’s Dairy, formally the famous Phil Shanahan's pub on the Corner of Foley Street, Dublin. Myself in the middle looking around. Most of the people in the photo had spent years as children, locked up in some of Ireland's most notorious industrial schools.

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Tenements on Foley Street Dublin, 1980s. My mother was still living there, she was the last to leave. My pals & myself went up to Dublin Corporation housing department to protest after trapping live rats & collecting dead rats in a sack. We let the rats into their offices.

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When recording elderly people 1970s living in the tenements in the inner city Dublin. One woman recalled coming to live in Dublin 1920s, “the houses were bad in the country, but when I came Dublin to live in the tenements, I wasn’t shocked to see in the rooms children 1/10

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“All we got on Christmas, was my mother was frying on the open fire long strips of fatty bacon, there was more fat than bacon. Santa had come. We woke up we were all sleeping on the floor on a mattress we had big heavy overcoats keeping us warm. The tenement rooms were 1/6

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1920s, a local sea-man living in the Monto area captured many images around Dublin’s once-famous red-light district, known as Monto. This is one from his collection. We are hoping in September to put on an photo & audio exhibition in the local area where the images were captured.

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She went to live in Corporation Buildings. She had to put on white cream makeup to cover her burns & her poor hair was burnt. Ah, she was a lovely looking woman, very well spoken. Know one knows why she ended up in Monto. There was lots of women working for the Madams” Mrs T S

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Sean O’Casey’s tenement room 35 Mountjoy Square,Dublin. I Interviewed a woman who lived in the same tenement house. She remembered, “the room lay empty without a tenant for years all his stuff was in it, people use to come up to look at his room, the door wasn’t locked”.

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car. I stood back with my hand in my jacket holding a hammer. I’m thankful no Christian Brother tried to stop him, I would have kil*ed him. I heard stories from pals who were in industrial schools what Brothers were doing to children. The photo shows him back in the 4/6

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yard. The smell was terrible & it brought a lot of sickness. People used to throw ashes over the shit to take down the smell. Many people got sick & children got sick & some died. The day my mother moved out of the tenements to a new house in Cabra was the best day of our 5/6

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Dublin Castle & given 1 year in St Patrick’s institution to finish his last year of his 7 year sentence. He came home around 1968. After 50 years he went back with RTÉ radio 1 to make a radio documentary “The Runners” & 2018 he returned with Channel 4 to tell part of his 5/6

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1940. Air Raid Shelters on Lower Gardiner Street, #Dublin . I recall a man telling me he got 6 months in prison for braking open an air raid shelter, “the air raid siren had gone off, APR warden wasn’t around. I broke off the lock to let the people in & I got 6 months in prison”.

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Monto Hidden History. Hoping to get a sponsor for an exhibition in 2023 of amazing photos documenting life around Dublin’s once famous Monto. A sailor took the photos in the 1920s. We will also use audio interviews of eyewitness’s to life in the area.

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living in the tenements around Monto. This year we will be seeking funding to re-open our history museum. The museum will be run & managed by local people from the north inner city, Dublin. Our museum was a walk back in time. 9/9 End

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I remember 1960, my mother used send me down to the docks with a milk bottle full of tea for my father. The top of the bottle was stuffed with newspaper. My father was digging coal out from coal boats. His wages was paid out in a pub along the dockside, he stood in line 1/2

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Got sent this photo I’d never seen before. Michael Collins kissing the Archbishop ring outside the Pro-Cathedral Church. No date for the photo.

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Photo: Children’s detention centre off lower Rutland Street. It was attached to a Police Barracks & detention centre on Summerhill opened around 1912. It housed children from age 4 to 16. When I was researching stories on Industrial Schools. I interviewed some women who 1/5

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former St Joseph’s industrial school in Tipperary after 50 years. He was finally captured by police after 2 years on the run. The Christian Brothers didn’t want him back as he had made escapes from all 3 industrial schools. He was taken back to the children’s court in Dublin 4/6

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c1960s. Snacker Burke’s coal shop on Railway Street, Dublin. Snackers was also a book shop / library. Women went to his shop for a half a stone of coal & buy a second hand copy of “True Romance” magazines Men got “True Detective” magazines. Children got the beano & dandy comics.

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Tenements in the north inner city once housed 100s of families. I recorded many stories with elderly people in those tenement rooms. All our archives along with 100s of tenement artefacts are in storage. Still trying to get funding for a museum in the north inner city.

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It was usually the fathers brought down a little white coffin. The coal man would place it on the dray so it’s wouldn’t move. The father would sit next to the coal man & off they go to the graveyard. In the night time & sometimes early morning we would hear the screams of 2/6

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our blood. My mother was in shock she brought the neighbours in to look. One of them said to her, “there’s one good thing about that Mary, the bugs won’t be eating you or the children tonight. There’s a lot of eating on that wallpaper for them little cu*ts to eat.” 6/9

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Great News, Bridge in Dublin to be renamed Bloody Sunday Bridge via @breakingnewsie

Bridge in Dublin to be renamed Bloody Sunday Bridge | BreakingNews.ie

For the past three years, debate and public consultation has been ongoing over changing the name from the Clonliffe Bridge/Russell Street Bridge to the new official name.

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Mr Gunnery as a young boy in Jervis Street Hospital. I interviewed him. He was in Croke Park GAA Stadium on Bloody Sunday1920 when a mixed force of Black & Tans, RIC,DMP police, British soldiers opened fire on spectators murdering 14 people injuring many others including himself.

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school. In the children’s court in Dublin Castle a judge handed him a 7 years sentence for stealing Rosary Beads. He spent time in 3 industrial schools. I will never forget my mother & Jemmy Gunnery running to get the car door open when my brother made run to jump into the 3/6

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“The rats were eating his toes.” Mrs Kelly recalls life in the Dublin tenements 1930s. She recalls sickness, children getting sick from, Diptera, whooping cough. This is a short audio clip from a 2 hour interview from our audio archives on tenement life.

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camera panned up on a photo hanging on the wall of her young son. She never told them he wasn’t long out of St Patrick’s Institution after been captured while on the run from the police after her neighbour, my father’s friend, herself & myself rescued him from an industrial 2/6

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Happy International Women’s Day. “It was the mothers, they were heroes in the tenements. My mother did a moneylender washing to get money to buy food for us children. She pawned everything in the house to buy food & went out selling bundles of sticks she chopped up.” Mrs Kelly

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women, it could be a husband & wife fighting, but there was times the woman woke up & found her child dead. There was a lot of sickness in the houses, the auld landlord would wouldn’t fix the broken toilet in the yard, people emptied their toilets buckets out the backyard. 3/6

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Billy Dunleavy recalled, the Madams of Monto, “I saw the big shots in the British Army & the Black and Tans going into the brothels on Railway Street, they were great friends with the Madams, they gave them poor unfortunate girls a terrible life in those houses. They got 1/6

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1960 we were hanging around the Royal Canal building a raft, we had collected all sorts of stuff out of empty tenement houses to build a raft. We were staying away from Rutland Street School because of the vicious beatings. The raft was ready to be launched into the water. 1/6

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1980s.The 27 streps leading down from Summerhill, Dublin into the Gloucester Diamond.The late 1970s Dublin Corporation started to de tenant houses around Corporation Buildings, Foley Street, Summerhill, Gardiner Street, Sean MacDermott Street, moving families out to the suburbs.

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the wealthy people” Finally she was released, then she married a monster of a man, who beat her, & shout at her while hitting her, “you should be use to these punches, your a Magdillon slave” Next morning I took her to a solicitor. I was glad I’d found this lost recording. 7/7

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Easter Rising & the North Inner City girl Molly O’Reilly. James Connolly a week before the Easter Rising choose his most trusted messenger, young Molly O'Reilly the honor of hoisting the green flag with the gold harp over Liberty Hall a week before the start of the Rising. 1/10

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They were all falling around the room laughing.” My father was standing looking at the them, he wasn’t one bit pleased. In those days all the tenements were full of bugs, rats, mice and flies. When we were moving out years after to the new flats the Dublin Corporation had 7/9

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Boys, crab fishing on the steps of the River Liffey, Dublin facing the Custom House with tin cans on strings. I remember 1 summer 1950s my pals & myself played on the steps, many of us would never again play together. Some were sent off to Ireland’s notorious Industrial schools.

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1970. Turf Depot at rear of the Gloucester Diamond, Dublin. Note the laneway leading in from middle Gardiner Street. For me it was a great place to meet people young & old to record their stories. It was also a place to hear the latest gossip. Photo: inner city folklore archives.

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Hell in Artane Industrial School, 1930s, Dublin. While going through my old audio collection of interviews about Industrial Schools, I came across Paddy Kearns' story of his childhood. He recalls, in a long interview, that in 1932 Judge Little sentenced him to 9 years of torment.

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the wallpapering, it looked lovely. The walls were full of lovely red flowers. My mother brought in the neighbours to have a look, she was so proud of her room. One of the neighbours said to her, “O Mary you must think you’re living in a garden with all them lovely flowers 3/9

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the landlord wouldn’t fix the toilet because people were emptying their toilet buckets down the toilet in the yard & it blocked it up. We had no choice but to empty them down the back of the yard & in the hot weather there was nothing but big blue bottle flies all over 4/6

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Foley Street, Dublin, 1960s. Formerly, Montgomery Street. 1990s I came across workers & a JCB lifting the cobblestones to taken to Temple Bar, Dublin. I contacted, the late Tony Gregory TD & Councillor Christy Burke, we mounted protest to save the cobblestones, we won the fight.

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1960s “Bring something with you, If this planned rescue goes wrong, the Christian Brothers are handy with the hurling sticks.”Jemmy Gunnery said to me as we left my mother’s tenement room to go down to Tipperary to rescue my brother from an industrial school. (Jemmy in the red)

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When I was doing research for my book on Monto. I interviewed a woman who lived in the first house in the photo. “I lived in that house with the boarded up window.” “Was your window broken.” “No, my grandfather put up the boards to stop us looking out at the girls on the corner.”

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One of the old gas lamps I found along with other things in the underground tunnels on Railway Street & Foley Street, Dublin. The tunnels were part of a system used by Monto madams to get their clients out in case of police raid’s on their brothels. Some tunnels were just 1/2

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This is the midwife of Monto, Mrs Dunleavey. 1 of the most amazing stories I was told about her would make a fantastic film. She helped to deliver a lot of the babies in the red light district of Monto. She befriended a young woman married a few weeks before the 1913 lockout 1/3

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Phil Shanahan’s Pub on Foley Street, Dublin was the most raided pub in Monto by the notorious Black and Tans during the War of Independence. I interviewed Chrissie Hawkins. As a young girl she was his most trusted messenger delivering IRA dispatches & revolvers to 1/3

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Dublin Tenement Life Mrs Kelly recalls, “Sixteen children in one tenement room, we all gathered around the fire taken turn’s toasting bread on the end of the poker. We were starving. We sometimes couldn’t get a cut of bread until tea time, we be hungry but we had to wait. 1/6

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Newsboys in court would sometimes have the director of the club, Gerry Walsh speaking up for them. He spoke up for me in the court & saved me from being put into 1 of Irelands notorious industrial schools. Photo: myself & Gerry. Plus a newspaper article, Gerry speaking for a boy

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Photo: Lower Talbot Street Dublin. The tenement house in the background is the Ardee House. I recall 1970 interviewing an elderly man on Foley Street. Pointing at the rear of the Ardee House, he said, see that building that was a meet place for the famous, “Animal Gang." 1/3

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Photos: The rear of the Magdalene Laundry on Railway Street, Dublin. On the Monto walking tour I point these original granite kerb stones from the days when the area was once, Dublins famous red-light district.

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the black cross made to hang over her bed. The cross was borrowed of the Higgins family to be place into the hands or over the beds of dying prostitutes in Monto’s brothels. The cross was given to me along with prison photos. It’s in storage with all our tenement artefacts. 5/5

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The arrow points to where Christina Caffrey, 22 months old, was shot in her mother’s arms standing outside her doorway on Easter week 1916. She lived at 27 Corporation Buildings, Dublin. Christina was youngest victim of the 1916 Easter Rising.

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the wallpaper to the walls. The tenement rooms were after after getting fumigated by the Corporation men to kill the bugs in the walls. Anyway baking flour was the cheapest way to stick wallpaper to the walls. That’s what a lot of people used. When he’d finished the 2/9

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Execution by the IRA of a Monto Madam’s Brother. John "Shankers" Ryan was a local married man living at 16 Lower Railway Street Dublin in the heart of the once famous red-light district known as, “Monto”. Ryan was suspected British spy working for British intelligence. 1/20

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Tenements on Corporation Street, formerly Mabbot Street, Dublin, 1930. Not far from Butler’s Shop, Harriet Butler was shot & killed by a Detective John McClowery, a Railroad Detective, he wanted her come away with him from the life of prostitution, she refused he shot her. 1/2

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MontoWalkingTours

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wallpaper.” We got up to look, there was holes all over the wallpaper. The bugs were still in the walls & had eaten the baking flour & the wallpaper during the night. The bugs used to come out from under where the skirting boards at night. They take a bite out of us & suck 5/9

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it up, but never gets rid of it. She keeps it wrapped up in grease proof paper. We don’t know if they ever met up again. All our archives are in storage, hopefully some day we will get funding without strings attached to reopen our north inner city museum.

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The real J Dawson: Titanic Fame, never did exist, but Joseph Dawson from Dublin’s North Inner City, did. In Fairview Lawn cemetery in Nova Scotia are the graves of some of those who lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic 👇Photo of the real, J Dawson 1/10

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Part 2 of the story of a remarkable man. Photo myself with Dave. “In India during the Gandhi era, people are on the streets protesting they want their independence from Britain. We were ordered to shoot them in the legs. I wouldn’t do it, I fired my gun into the ground. I was 1/6

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she’d pawn anything that was good in the room, she use to pawn the old iron she use put on the fire. The landlord would let her miss a week’s rent. She would have his rent book on the table with his money” Mrs Brady. Photo of tenement rent book from our archives.

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