WATCH: 100 Years of the Housing Crisis - Special documentary to air on TG4 next week
Written and directed by Paul Webster, this feature documentary is a decade-by-decade look at how Irish housing issues have been tackled since the birth of the Irish state and where it all went so wrong.
Ireland was born in a housing crisis and it has never gone away. Every government and generation, has had to contend with this same issue.
This film explores the ideas that worked and the ones that were disastrous, painting a picture of how we lost our way and how we can fix the current crisis.
It’s largely forgotten now, but one of the key issues driving the Irish revolutionaries during the War of Independence was the housing question.
Now for the first time ever, the one hundred year history of housing in Ireland is laid out in this fascinating documentary that looks at the big housing stories of each decade up to 2023 and attempts to pinpoint the seeds of our current situation.
The Suburb, The Flat, the Bungalow, these were all ideas, ideas that would fulfil our various housing needs.
This documentary delves deep into the housing concepts that have shaped the country we live in.
A host of historians, architects, planners and thinkers have been carefully selected to give new insight into this living history that couldn’t be more relevant today. As well as this, we hear from the people who lived in the iconic developments that make up this history.
This rich archive is presented in a new light and includes revealing and heartening insights from real people throughout the decades, building a picture of how housing policies affected ordinary people.
This beautifully realised cinematic documentary is a unique exploration of Ireland’s living history. As well as this, a line-up of the great thinkers on the topic are assembled to explain their ideas for the future of housing in Ireland.
100 Bliain de Thithíocht - Géarchéim Gan Derireadh will air on October 25, 202 on TG4 at 9.30pm.
Also available on the TG4 Player.