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Episode Notes
This week: How the Marino community transformed Dublin housing a century ago; and the Irish Civil War Fatalities Project from UCC which investigates the death toll of the conflict.
Marino 100
One hundred years ago, construction began on the "garden suburb" of Marino in North Dublin – an early housing scheme in the Irish Free State - which today is a popular residential area with a distinctive appearance. We're going to hear about the history of Marino, an ambitious, idealistic initiative - which Dublin Corporation intended to be a model of what good housing should be.
Our producer, Lorcan Clancy went to Marino to find out how residents are planning to mark this centenary. He speaks to members of the Marino Residents Association Mark Crowther, Patricia Normanly and Gerry Edgely. They will be featuring their centenary plans at marino.ie
Then, Myles is joined by Dr Ruth McManus from the School of History and Geography at Dublin City University, who has researched the history of this estate. Her website HousingThePeople.ie is an online exhibition which gives the context of early housing schemes in the Irish Free State.
The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project
The Irish Civil War officially began on the 28th June 1922, when the National Army attacked the anti-Treaty force occupying the Four Courts in Dublin. It officially ended on the 24th May 1923, with Frank Aiken's "dump arms" order to IRA Volunteers.
The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project is the first systematic attempt to investigate the number of people killed between those two dates. This is a University College Cork project, in collaboration with RTE, and supported with funding from the government’s Decade of Centenaries Programme.
The findings are available online now. There’s a series of articles at rte.ie/history with regional studies on the data uncovered. There’s also an interactive map on the UCC website which allows you to take a county-by-county look at who died, where they died, and how they died.
To talk about this, Myles is joined by Dr Andy Bielenberg of University College Cork, and historian John Dorney of The Irish Story website.
Over the past year and a half they’ve been collecting all this information, and using it to assess the geography and chronology of Civil War casualties, and examines the social profile of the victims.