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A clipping from the 'Freeman's Journal' (5 Sept. 1913) showing workmen clearing the wreckage of the collapsed tenement buildings on Church Street.

A clipping from the 'Evening Telegraph' (6 Sept. 1913) showing the woman on the right collecting on O'Connell Street for a relief fund established in the aftermath of the Church Street tenement disaster.

Schedules containing statements showing the ‘number of persons who, prior to the disaster, resided in Nos. 66 and 67 (the houses were completely demolished), the number killed, injured, and left homeless. The statement also includes the number killed and injured in house No. 64, and the amount of grants given’. Other schedules refer to the number of persons who vacated adjoining properties ‘through a reasonable sense of fear at the collapse of the houses 66 and 67 …’ and other relief actions to be taken.

Schedule containing statements showing the ‘number of persons who, prior to the disaster, resided in Nos. 66 and 67 (the houses were completely demolished), the number killed, injured, and left homeless. The statement also includes the number killed and injured in house No. 64, and the amount of grants given’.

Report of the Housing Committee presented to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin. The report relates to awards of compensation to tenement dwellers in the Beresford Street and Church Street areas. The report also submits a ‘revised scheme for workmen’s dwellings’ at these locations. The report was submitted by C.J. Murray, Chairman of the Committee, City Hall, Dublin. The pamphlet is paginated pp 59-66. A coloured plan for the area is appended to the publication. The explanatory note extant on the plan reads: ‘This plan provides for No. 24, Four Roomed Houses; No. 98 Three Roomed Houses; No. 34, Two Roomed Cottages. Total, 156’. Scale: 60 feet to 1 inch.

A clipping from the 'Daily Mirror' (5 Sept. 1913) with views of the destroyed tenements and children left homeless by the disaster on Church Street on 2 September 1913.

A clipping from the 'Illustrated Chronicle' (5 Sept. 1913) referring to the rescued children from the tenement building at 67 Church Street. The caption to the image refers to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, one of the Capuchin friars who helped in the rescue.

A clipping from the 'Irish Independent' (6 Sept. 1913) showing the funeral procession for victims of the Church Street tenement disaster crossing Grattan Bridge.

A clipping from the 'Freeman's Journal' (4 Sept. 1913) showing the wrecked interior of one of the collapsed tenement buildings on Church Street.