Dr Jacinta Prunty is Head of the History Department at Maynooth University. She has written extensively on the Dublin Slums and her book of that title is a work which has been welcomed by geographers and historians alike. It gives a comprehensive and insightful account and analysis of Dublin’s inexorable transformation into a slum city; it provides a template for researchers in Irish urban history; and it awakens social historians to what they have to learn from the historical geographers.
Part of the Living in Victorian Dublin seminar which explored a wide range of contrasting topics relating to this influential era in Dublin’s history including architecture, tenements, bourgeoisie homes, and homelessness.
Recorded at Council Chamber, City Hall on 26 August 2017, as part of Living in Victorian Dublin, Dublin City Archive’s Heritage Week Seminar.
