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September 2018

Dublin: new museum shows tenement life

Dublin's newest museum shows a slice of life that's quite different from visiting stately homes and public institutions. Instead, it shows the hard life of Dublin working people through tours of a reconstructed tenement building. The museum, called 14 Henrietta Street, after its address, uses period furnishings, objects and building condition to show visitors how thousands of Dubliners lived in the 19th and 20th centuries, and oral histories to tell their stories. The building itself is a...

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