The Liffey is black tonight, and the bridges are full. People come off shift and walk onto them the way this crossing has always worked: hurdles on the mud, a ferry, the iron bridge that charged a halfpenny.

The city above the water has two names. One is a dark pool. The other is that ford. Stay until the river is still carrying both of them.

Immersive reconstruction - honest, imperfect, meant to put you in the place, not to replace the archive.

00:00 Introduction
00:29 The Ford
01:09 The Norse
03:25 Strongbow
05:11 The Kingdom
07:58 The Streets
09:53 The Knot
12:07 Hunger
14:38 The Lockout
16:22 Howth
17:06 Easter
18:37 The War
21:32 The Emergency
23:26 Talbot Street
24:24 Wood Quay
24:56 The Eighties
25:18 The Tiger
27:56 Conclusion

Sources: Irish annals; Dictionary of Irish Biography; Census of Ireland / CSO; Dublin Housing Inquiry 1914; Glasnevin Trust; Viking Ship Museum (Skuldelev 2); Barron Report (Dublin and Monaghan, 1974).

Charles VS History brings lost history back to life through immersive, factual documentary.

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