Irene Keogh was born in a Georgian House on the corner of Mountjoy Square and Charles Street in 1939. “It was a tenement house and we lived up on the third floor. I used to hide them every week and he’d put them back up.”St Michan’s was built by Herbert Simms in 1933. Two rooms“You possibly had only one room in the tenements, so at least when they came here they had two bedrooms. “Everything was in the little scullery,” not only the cookers and sink, but the bath too, which doubled as a kitchen table.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2018 03:56 UTC