{"id":17991,"date":"2025-08-07T09:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=17991"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:11:15","slug":"podcast-the-ghosts-of-monto-terry-fagan-on-1950s-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/podcast-the-ghosts-of-monto-terry-fagan-on-1950s-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/37715845\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/d7d7d7\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/font-color\/000000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"192\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin\u2019s North Inner City. Born in the 1950s and raised in the historic heart of what was once Europe\u2019s largest red-light district, the Monto, Fagan witnessed firsthand the rapid transformation, and often erasure, of the surrounding Dublin tenements and their culture.<\/p>\n<p>He is, to this day, one of the best living sources of lore and information about this lost world, as well as a collector of histories of it.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, Fagan began his historical work by recording oral histories from local residents, many of whom remembered formative events such as the 1913 Lock-Out, the 1916 Easter Rising, and the War of Independence and Civil War. These interviews also documented memories relating to life in Dublin\u2019s tenements, experiences in industrial schools and Magdalen laundries, dock work, women\u2019s roles, deaths of children, money lenders, orphanage life, and more, covering both the public and intensely personal history of inner-city Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Fagan\u2019s work extends far beyond oral interviews. He is the longtime director of the North Inner City Folklore Project, an initiative that began as a jobs program and allowed him to preserve and publish stories from his community. Over decades, he has amassed a vast collection of tenement artefacts: photographs, books, letters, coins, dockers\u2019 buttons, children\u2019s toys. His vision has always been to open a dedicated museum so this vital social history is preserved within, and for, the local community rather than being housed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>This museum has been a reality in the past and Terry\u2019s current passion is to reestablish it.<\/p>\n<p>Terry has published works such as &#8220;Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle&#8221; and &#8220;Dublin Tenements: Memories of Life in Dublin\u2019s Notorious Tenements,&#8221; both drawn from his extensive oral history collections.\u00a0 He is also a popular walking tour guide, interweaving tales from his own life as well as audio samples from the collections he oversaw. The Monto tour includes tales about brothel madams, dockers, and a \u201chidden Dublin\u201d many would prefer to leave interred in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin\u2019s North Inner City. Born in the 1950s and raised in the historic heart of what was once Europe\u2019s largest red-light district, the Monto, Fagan witnessed firsthand the rapid transformation, and often erasure, of the surrounding Dublin tenements and their culture. 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