The Dundalk Premier Public Utility Society
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https://doi.org/10.55650/igj.1998.367Abstract
Public utility societies played an important, but relatively unstudied, role in housing development in Ireland in this century. Whilst an earlier paper looked at their operation in Dublin, the focus of this paper is on the Premier Public Utility Society in Dundalk which built houses in the early 1930s. The paper examines the structure of the Society and its role as a housing provider to the working classes. It drew on the Dublin experience with public utility societies for its methods of operation. The provision of adequate finance was one of the major issues which the society had to address. This impinged on its ability and willingness to provide housing for the poorer classes. It is argued that the Dundalk society is typical of many societies of the period.
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