From little acorns
The Mount Street Club looked at the problem of unemployment with dignity, writes Colin Murphy.
Seventy-year-old Peadar Geraghty is one of the few people still around with first-hand memories of one of the great,
early experiments in responding to long-term unemployment in Ireland.
Peadar was born in a tenement on Mount Street in Dublin. His family were lucky: they could afford to rent a second room. When his sisters moved into the new room, one of them was woken by a rat running across her.
Peadar’s father, Peter, ...
