Nationwide celebrates the first tenant-purchase housing scheme in the fledgling Free State – the Tenters.
A century after the first residents moved into their homes in Dublin 8, this special programme looks at the history of the area and meets the people who’ve lived there for generations.
Cathy Scuffil, Historian-in-Residence, Dublin City Council describes the significance of the housing development, saying: “It starts around 1921 and at the stage we're still under British rule, so this is the last estate to be built with money from Britain but we move into the Free State almost immediately, so January 1922 we are in the Irish Free State so the Tenters reflects the new beginning, the very beginning of a brand new country trying to find its way in the world.”
