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and practical nature
drawing on a wealth of Arabic and Western sources to describe the fortunes and calamities of a state that was assembled by the British in the wake of World War I and which today faces what may be the most serious threat to survival that it has ever known
The results are often satirical but never cruel
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Dublin Tenement Life by Kevin C. Kearns taxation minor foxing to title pageDublin Tenement Life An Oral History by Kevin C. Kearns Gill & Macmillan, 1984, b w photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 07172178X Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, small indentation at bottom front edge, otherwise fine 'For nearly one hundred and fifty years, the wretched, squalid tenements of Dublin were widely judged to be the worst slums in all of Europe. By the 1930s, 6,400 tenements were occupied by almost 112,000