The Mick Clifford Podcast: Eoin Ó Broin on the way housing was

A new coffee table book, written by Eoin Ó Broin and illustrated with the photographs of Mal McCann, looks at the public housing schemes designed by acclaimed architect Herbert Sims in the early decades of the state and the people who now live in them. 

Flats And Cottages – Herbert Sims and the Housing of Dublin’s Working Class 1932-48 works as both a history of architecture and a social history of a changing city. 

But who was Herbert Sims and what can we learn from him and the times he worked in that can be applied to today’s housing crisis? 

Eoin O Broin is this week’s guest on the podcast.