This sad footage captures the plight of families evicted
from Jervis Street in Dublin. At the time, the Dublin Corporation was evicting
people from often crumbling Georgian buildings. In the summer of 1963 two
tenements collapsed, causing the deaths of several residents, and many others
were suddenly deemed dangerous with cracks appearing in them.
However, Dublin had a
severe lack of social housing at the time and those being evicted from unsafe
buildings were often either offered nowhere else to go or somewhere entirely
inappropriate. The evicted residents in Jervis Street in this footage refused
to move and continued to live with their possessions on the pavement outside.