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Thu 11 Nov 2006Smart suburbs, hideous alleys: Irish housing in 1842Fine houses along with the first signs of the Famine are what struck author William Thackeray when he visited Ireland in 1842, writes Michael ParsonsHigh rents in south Dublin? No available development land between Dún Laoghaire and the city centre? Houses in the north inner city "which look as if they had seen better days"? Ireland in 2006?