The Dublin they left,Would have been the fifties and sixties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZDcuyH4VA
From 1840s until 1970s Dublin was blighted with the worst slums in all of Europe. Generation after generation of poor Dubliners would be forced into the disease ridden tenements to survive. This is the first documentary of note to tackle this sad and under-reported subject.
PETE ST JOHN sentimentalises Dublin and is an example of rose tinted spectacles.