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"The ""slum condition"" in 19th century Dublin is a well-documented feature of the city's past. Much is now known of the overcrowded tenements and their poverty stricken inhabitants. However, yet another community existed in Dublin at this time, which also suffered the indignation of poverty and disease, yet little is known of their plight. These few Dublin's rural poor, an agricultural community populating the townlands and villages of the wider county beyond the municipality. This pamphlet chooses the territorial boundaries of the South Dublin Poor Law Union as its topic of study. Areas covered include the parishes of Rathfarnham, Clondalkin, Tallaght and Crumlin. The text explores from both an administrative and social perspective, the trials and tribulations involved in implementing within this union, the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878."

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Frank Cullen received his MA in Irish Local Studies from the NUI, Mnynooth upon which this book is based. He lives and works in Dublin.

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