Down and Out in Dublin: Homelessness (1964)
A look at life for those who are living in the back streets and hostels of Dublin in 1964. “They exist rather than live, sheltered by state and religious institutions, fed by charitable organisations, avoided by their fellow citizens, studied by sociologists, moved by policemen, jeered at by children in the street. They lead the most public and the most private of lives. Everyone knows them to see, but scarcely anyone knows them to talk to or understand just how or why they drifted into their present hopelessness.”
Creit Dublin Tales