Number 12 in my list of books by former students of the Heaney Centre: BANDIT COUNTRY by James Conor Patterson (@JCPattz). Shortlisted for the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Published by @picadorbooks. #SHCwriters.
The Killester Garden Village, the largest Irish WW1 ex-servicemen housing estate on the island of Ireland. 289 'Homes for Heroes' built by both British and Irish Administrations from 1920-1923 with further additions built in the 1930s by the ISSLT. Map in the 1940s. ☘️⚘️
I build models of Derelict Dublin Buildings to highlight the housing and dereliction crises.
Join me as we build the city that's literally crumbling down around us, starting with the City Arts Centre on the Quays. @PhotosOfDublin#derelictireland#homelessness
The period covered in #ImagingConflict saw the 1st Irish revolution in which the public played such a key role documenting. These images are from a Republican funeral scenes showing 13 coffins lying in state in the Hardwicke Hall buried in Glasnevin. https://t.co/iPmNgwXFIV
Exciting to see the Mater Hospital Historical Record Archive now available via @RCPI_news https://t.co/BPZaDg4il5 Great work by Ms Helen Madden @MaterDublin in collaboration with Ms Harriet Wheelock @RCPI_news
We are thrilled to release the CFP for our second series, Human Stories of Dress! We invite papers of 20mins, or shorter papers of 10mins for newer researchers. Deadline is 30th November 🧵✂️👗🧶🦺👠⛑
In 2014, a group of architects, home builders, and neighborhood activists in Portland, Oregon, wrote a letter asking the city to rewrite local housing rules. That letter helped start a movement, @mslaurabliss reports: https://t.co/dw4VmXf45I
The new PBS documentary film from @sarah_l_burns and @DavidMMcMahon chronicles the fall of an Atlanta housing project through the residents who once called it home.
@sarahsholder interviews the filmmakers: https://t.co/uZ4Bjb2CGn
Clear lesson from #Covid_19 emergency is-you can’t have two tier health service if you want to protect people-yet @LeoVaradkar on @drivetimerte at pains to say public control of private healthcare is only “temporary”. This is not acceptable, we must have a one tier health service