2 - Cartoon 219 - In loving memory of Bull Alley

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2 - Cartoon 219 - In loving memory of Bull Alley

Illustration of a scene at a slaughter house in Bull Alley, Dublin. Unhygienic dairy yards and slaughter houses were common in the Dublin slums, and added much to the public health problems in the areas. The owners of these formed a powerful lobby in resisting attempts to reform the areas, some even being members of Dublin Corporation and so having a vested interest in stopping sanitary reforms. The slaughter house man in the cartoon is telling the Corporation sanitary inspector that his boss might well be a member of Dublin Corporation soon, and that he could use that position to remove the inspector from his position. Bull Alley was one of the worst slum areas of the Dublin Liberties at the end of the 19th century, and between 1891 and 1915 the Iveagh Trust cleared much of the worst accommodation and replaced it with new affordable housing.

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Reference Number: TF/2

Date: June 1908

Creator Name: Fitzpatrick, Thomas, 1860-1912

Copyright: Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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