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Staunch guardian of life in the city

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / February 27 2000: Staunch guardian of life in the city

Peter Pearson, pays tribute to the late Deirdre Kelly, a staunch defender of Dublin's heritage To say she was radical is perhaps to suggest that she was extreme or fanatical in her views, and that would be far from the truth. She was simply ahead of her time, beginning in the early 1970s to campaign for the saving of Dublin's social and architectural fabric.

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