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  • January 28, 2003 at 1:09 pm #705962
    GrahamH
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    Wonderful to see so little has changed in Dublin in 200 years.

    Philip Luckome 1779:
    ‘Except for the few new streets which are paved and flagged like those of London, Dublin as a whole is abominally dirty and slippery’

    Hibernian Magazine 1777
    In this we read that coaches are often overturned by the piles of rubbish that accumulate on the streets.

    Arthur Young:
    ‘I shall only remark that walking in the streets of Dublin, from the populousness of the principal thoroughfares, as well as the dirt and wretchedness of the canaille, is a most disgusting and uneasy exercise’

    Oh dear.

    January 28, 2003 at 1:17 pm #724045
    Niall
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    ah the dirty Irish…..

    January 30, 2003 at 2:27 pm #724046
    Sue
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    Rubbish, so to speak. There were more Brits than Irish in Dublin in the 1770s

    January 30, 2003 at 3:05 pm #724047
    urbanisto
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    Now THAT sounds like rubbish!

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