Dublin’s north quays: Then and now in photographs

Here’s an interesting article about the Dublin Waterfront from the Irish Times.  There’s more about David Jazay’s #DublinbeforetheTiger project here.

From 1982 to 1992, David Jazay photographed Dublin’s quays. Here is how they looked, then and today

A section of the north city quays captured by German photographer David Jazay and a montage of how it looks today. Photographs: David Jazay, Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Dublin Before the Tiger is a long-term study of the inner city from 1982 to 1992 by German photographer David Jazay .

As a visitor to Dublin in those years, Jazay was acutely aware that the city was changing fast, and he set out to document premises under immediate threat of demolition.

He felt – rightly as it turned out – that this “poor but lively inner city” would lose much of its local business culture within a few years.

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