Leaving Certificate Teacher Resources

Some questions to consider

• Tenement residents were relocated to new developments across the city over a period of roughly eighty years. Why did this process take so long?
• Listen to the oral histories above. To what extent do the voices agree about tenement life? Are there any examples where they disagree, or share a different experience?
• What do these oral histories tell us about society in the Republic of Ireland in the second half of the 20th century?
• Consider oral histories as evidence: how reliable are these records? How might they be unreliable? What are the advantages and limitations of oral histories as evidence of a period in history?