Why can we not build houses like this now? The state was only in it's infancy and managed to house it's people.
In 1914, Raymond Unwin and Patrick Geddes proposed a housing scheme for Marino, Dublin. Delayed by WWI, the project resumed in 1922 under Charles J. McCarthy and Horace O’Rourke, funded by the new Irish Free State. The completed estate had 428 houses.