Change?

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.