This paper examines the explosion of activism around housing in Ireland in the late Sixties. At a time of political commemoration around the anniversaries of the 1916 Rising, and the establishment of the first revolutionary independent parliament (Dail) in 1919, a group of activists calling themselves the Dublin Housing Action Committee sought to disrupt political consensus and ask serious questions about the priorities of the Irish state. The group began through cooperation between homeless people in the city, but soon garnered support from anti-establishment agitators within the republican party, Sinn Fein. By 1969, the group was pressing government for response to the acute housing crisis in the city. The significance of the DHAC was threefold. In the first instance, it sheds light on a local political problem, challenging the consensus of an Irish ‘success’ narrative, and putting the spotlight on the failure of the state to deliver on its promise to its citizens at exactly the time when this ‘success’ was being celebrated. The strategies of the DHAC demonstrated how the wider national question of Irish unity could be fused with local issues in order to successfully build alliances beyond its organic political base. Secondly, it sought to exploit a rights-based language placing socio-political protest in Ireland within a much broader international context. Thirdly, the case of the DHAC prompts us to rethink the position of Ireland within the global ‘sixties’, beyond the dominant narrative of civil rights activism in Northern Ireland. The actions of this housing movement indicate that the struggles of a small modernizing economy on the fringes of Europe produced the same kinds of protest as were evident in urban unrest in Britain, the US and other parts of Europe.

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家，甜蜜的家？六十年代爱尔兰的住房积极主义与政治纪念

本文考察了六十年代后期爱尔兰围绕住房的激进主义激增。在围绕1916年崛起周年的政治纪念活动以及1919年成立第一个革命独立议会（Dail）的时候，一群自称是都柏林住房行动委员会的激进分子试图破坏政治共识，并提出严重的问题。爱尔兰国家的优先事项。该组织通过城市中无家可归者之间的合作开始，但很快就得到了共和党内的反建制煽动者辛恩·费恩的支持。到1969年，该组织已敦促政府应对城市的严重住房危机。DHAC的意义是三重的。首先，它揭示了当地的政治问题，挑战爱尔兰“成功”叙事的共识，并将焦点放在国家未能在庆祝“成功”之际兑现对公民的承诺上。DHAC的战略表明，如何将更广泛的爱尔兰统一国家问题与地方问题融合在一起，以便成功地建立超出其有机政治基础的联盟。其次，它试图在更广泛的国际背景下利用基于权利的语言在爱尔兰进行社会政治抗议。第三，DHAC案促使我们重新思考爱尔兰在全球“六十年代”中的地位，超越了北爱尔兰民权活动主义的主流叙述。