1922

Has anything changed?

                                           Sean O'Casey: 1880 - 1964

1922:  Troubled Times. Civil War, much drinking, love, song and laughter, but within the echoes, there was darkness and sorrow and death.
                                     Juno and the Paycock:  by Sean O'Casey.


1791 Georgian houses sold in Dublin for £8.000 and a decade later for £2.500
1840's  The Great Hunger "Famine"  Landlords profiteering, came the dark Dublin slums, the Georgian houses being sold for £500
1930's Dublin's dilapidated tenements were deemed the "worst slums in Europe"
                                              Has anything changed?
                                   

Ref:

The Harvard Classic 1909 - 14

The Peacock and Juno:

The peacock once placed a petition before Juno desiring to have the voice of a nightingale in addition to his other attractions; but Juno refused this request, when he persisted and pointed out that he was her favourite bird; She said: "Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything".

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