[Tax-chick]

A major part of the problem would appear to have been the pervasive poverty of the time ...

That's so unexpected!

[miss marmelstein]

My first visit to Dublin was in the late 60s. I’ll never forget the squalid conditions and the women wearing shawls over their heads and carrying barefoot, filthy children around. Yikes! It improved over the years. But I couldn’t wait to get out of that city.