In 1913 Dublin was a city in turmoil. Riddled with relentless poverty and row after row of filthy and dilapidated tenement housing the formerly grand Georgian Streets that had been the playground of the Anglo Irish Ascendency became a death trap for the 1000s of working class families that now lived in overcrowded homes built for the elite landowning overlords of Ireland. Every day the residents of Dublin's tenements faced disease, death and hunger in the eye and the year of 1913 would see their bones broken by the masonry of their decrepit homes and the batons of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In September of that year two crowded tenement homes crumbled into the crowd killing 7 of their residents. This is the story of that sad day and of the bravery of a young man named Eugene Salmon who gave his life to save his siblings.

Irish History by Obscure Ireland With Peter.

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