Philly McMahon the Dublin footballer from Ballymun said in his book they used to hit golf balls over “The poshie wall” into Glasnevin, where my mam used to live and she recalls golf balls being all over the road
I grew up in what was once Ballymun, but as the inevitable social collapse took hold and dragged the doomed project into decades long death spiral we renamed our area Glasnevin North. The Willows was never anything but The Willows, there was too much riding on that new truth.
When I was in and out of the mun ...there was Deals on Wheels, a guy who dealt hash etc. etc. from his wheelchair in the shopping centre. Kind of a deliveroo service, except the product was a little different but obviously the service was somewhat curtailed by the large amount of wheelchair unfriendly exits. Nice work on the film well done.
@Meditations for the anxious mind Don't be. You are shining light into dark places that would never be talked about. You are needed on CZcams right now. Namaste. 🙏🏿
Kind of heartbreaking. I've heard of Ballymun before, and it's interesting how Blindboy ties together the various `story arcs' of history, while you choose a place and trace it back over time. This one gives me a stronger sense of how it is to live in a neighbourhood while it falls apart, but I might not `get it' as much without him providing socioeconomic and political context. We have our own housing crisis here, btw. The general shape of it is the same, although the details differ.
Thanks for your message man. Really interesting to read how things that happen over here relate to your part of the world. Thanks for the comment and good to hear from ya! ❤️
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind - Thanks, you too. :-) Yeah, the decisions are local, but the economic forces that inform them are worldwide. Also, a lot of politicians own property and want the rent to keep going up. :-\ [edit] On second thought, that last part was too cynical about motives. People generally mean well, and they do *try* to help, just not to the point where it would lower property values... Kind of like running around putting out fires, while failing to notice that guy over there with the flamethrower. [Something about unconscious cognitive bias goes here, I think.]
Ballymun is as edgy a place as its ever been. No politician has ever on the north side anyway made the comparison between north and south Dublin when it absolutely apparent the state has nurtured both but in a very different way.
these videos are good because they don’t just harp on tired and stupid tropes like all people from Ballymun or Finglas are scangers or whatever like there’s a good bitta thinking done and they do the areas justice
Yes that’s a hundred percent true, it was in 1986 after the surrender grant which gave people from ballymun the option of taking 5k which was enough to buy a house in the private sector (houses back then cost about 10 thousand) there were a lot of empty council flats as a result and there was something like 5,000 on the housing list at the time. So a lot of people who were unemployed, homeless and also people who were patients at portrane psychiatric hospital were brought into the flats, which then, coincided at the same time as the heroin epidemic, caused a lot of social problems. So this is about how the government ghettoised ballymun
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind Do you have a source for the part about portrane patients being moved? I grew up near the hospital and it's interesting, I've never heard anything about it before and neither have my parents, can't find anything about it online and just curious...
@@MythosRealm yeah you can find info about it here on the first page of this document. It’s the ballymun local action plan of 2017, they mention the surrender grant as well as the vulnerable tenants that got placed into the vacant flats: homeless men, single mothers and psychiatric patients. www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/media/file-uploads/2018-05/Part_2-Ballymun_LAP_2017_Pages_8-25.pdf
The flash’s were Beuitfull and jyst un real people had them Beuitfull I mis mine so much I had one in sandyhill avenue I loved it my y naibours were just naibours all helped each other leavecyur door open no problem just Brilent great memiiuries Ipeople run ballymun diwn well there’s good and bad every were reamber this we’re not all that bad my 4 children done well in ballymun n. So any one that choices reo run it down. Don’t there’s Beuitfull good people out hear that rared there children and are doing well god bless everyone ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Well I’ll tell yu now there’s Beuitfull people hear in ballymun I’m hear 56 years rared my 4 children and they all done well so if yu don’t mind stop running it down there’s good and bad every were and as I said Beuitfull people hesr. So and the flats were Beuitfull private and my kuds loved them rip any one that lost a live one hear. As there’s a lot off history hesr and sadness. People off ballymun are the salt off the earth gid bless them
Philly McMahon the Dublin footballer from Ballymun said in his book they used to hit golf balls over “The poshie wall” into Glasnevin, where my mam used to live and she recalls golf balls being all over the road
Ballymun is the Hollywood boulevard of Dublin. Into the west, Adam and Paul, love/hate. It is the hotbed for Irish filmmaking 👍☘️
I grew up in what was once Ballymun, but as the inevitable social collapse took hold and dragged the doomed project into decades long death spiral we renamed our area Glasnevin North. The Willows was never anything but The Willows, there was too much riding on that new truth.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the mysterious housing list. Nobody knows how it works, only that it moves backwards instead if forwards.
When I was in and out of the mun ...there was Deals on Wheels, a guy who dealt hash etc. etc. from his wheelchair in the shopping centre. Kind of a deliveroo service, except the product was a little different but obviously the service was somewhat curtailed by the large amount of wheelchair unfriendly exits. Nice work on the film well done.
Educational and enlightening. I've never known so much about Ireland as I have since subscribing to this channel.
Sorry about that!
@Meditations for the anxious mind Don't be. You are shining light into dark places that would never be talked about. You are needed on CZcams right now. Namaste. 🙏🏿
My grandmother lived in Plunkett tower, I still remember visiting her there in the 80's
Kind of heartbreaking.
I've heard of Ballymun before, and it's interesting how Blindboy ties together the various `story arcs' of history, while you choose a place and trace it back over time. This one gives me a stronger sense of how it is to live in a neighbourhood while it falls apart, but I might not `get it' as much without him providing socioeconomic and political context.
We have our own housing crisis here, btw. The general shape of it is the same, although the details differ.
Thanks for your message man. Really interesting to read how things that happen over here relate to your part of the world. Thanks for the comment and good to hear from ya! ❤️
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind - Thanks, you too. :-)
Yeah, the decisions are local, but the economic forces that inform them are worldwide. Also, a lot of politicians own property and want the rent to keep going up. :-\
[edit] On second thought, that last part was too cynical about motives. People generally mean well, and they do *try* to help, just not to the point where it would lower property values... Kind of like running around putting out fires, while failing to notice that guy over there with the flamethrower. [Something about unconscious cognitive bias goes here, I think.]
Ballymun is as edgy a place as its ever been. No politician has ever on the north side anyway made the comparison between north and south Dublin when it absolutely apparent the state has nurtured both but in a very different way.
@@nightshift4587 - I wouldn't call that nurturing; I'd call it neglect. Otherwise, I totally agree.
"No planes go to Glasnevin."
Ballymuners Rob yer runners
these videos are good because they don’t just harp on tired and stupid tropes like all people from Ballymun or Finglas are scangers or whatever like there’s a good bitta thinking done and they do the areas justice
You must be from ballymun you scanger
Do the Wisdom of College TUD (City Campus) next!
Do Grangegorman next!!!
Ballymunners steal Ur runners
No planes to glasnevin then xD nice
Maybe I missed some sarcasm, but I am wondering about the reference to moving psychiatric patients into the flats... is there any truth to this?
Yes that’s a hundred percent true, it was in 1986 after the surrender grant which gave people from ballymun the option of taking 5k which was enough to buy a house in the private sector (houses back then cost about 10 thousand) there were a lot of empty council flats as a result and there was something like 5,000 on the housing list at the time. So a lot of people who were unemployed, homeless and also people who were patients at portrane psychiatric hospital were brought into the flats, which then, coincided at the same time as the heroin epidemic, caused a lot of social problems. So this is about how the government ghettoised ballymun
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind Do you have a source for the part about portrane patients being moved? I grew up near the hospital and it's interesting, I've never heard anything about it before and neither have my parents, can't find anything about it online and just curious...
@@MythosRealm yeah you can find info about it here on the first page of this document. It’s the ballymun local action plan of 2017, they mention the surrender grant as well as the vulnerable tenants that got placed into the vacant flats: homeless men, single mothers and psychiatric patients. www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/media/file-uploads/2018-05/Part_2-Ballymun_LAP_2017_Pages_8-25.pdf
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind Thanks!
Namaste 🙏
Theyre just so loud xDxD
Excellent
wow i love your tik tok account, i didnt know you had a youtube
Coultry road
People in ballymun alkways had plenty off good food and full and plenty in the 70 80 90 and still have well feed so
I always heard that ballymunners steal your runners. I once got chased out of there by knife and revolver wielding thugs, true story.
This is scary
Man, you make may day. Fair play to yaa😁🍀
Asking from England: Are there Peabody (American philanthropist) and Guinness buildings in Ireland?
Guinness yes. Never heard of Peabody I’d have to look into it.
Wonderful writing. Hilaious and heart breaking by turn.
Lived there nice place
The flash’s were Beuitfull and jyst un real people had them Beuitfull I mis mine so much I had one in sandyhill avenue I loved it my y naibours were just naibours all helped each other leavecyur door open no problem just Brilent great memiiuries Ipeople run ballymun diwn well there’s good and bad every were reamber this we’re not all that bad my 4 children done well in ballymun n. So any one that choices reo run it down. Don’t there’s Beuitfull good people out hear that rared there children and are doing well god bless everyone ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
l lived there in the 70's i regret my parents moving us to Tallaght, the happiest times in my life was in the flats
Looks like Bulgaria
WE WATCHED THIS IN GEOGRAPHY CLASS
Awh shiiii
Went to like this brilliant video but the counter is at 666 likes, wanted to leave that intact. Namaste
😂❤☘️mamasteyy
this shit is fucking brilliant
Ballymun dcc muted my sister so cope on do it for real goggle Rachel peavoy read how she was killed ta
YUP
Bono wasn't a Ballymun native. Whitehall.
He wasn't from Whitehall either😂😂 He was from Cedarwood which is Glasnevin/Finglas depending on who you ask
As someone whos TOTALLY been to iteland i love ballyum or bali total fitness or bollywood or whatever ,whats Ireland ,am i real
My folks could of got a surrender grant? wtf why didnt they take it. IM GOING TO HAVE WORDS WITH MY FOLKS!
Up the Ballymun flats!!!
That St itas bit is not true though
Flaths
mup d bmun
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Well I’ll tell yu now there’s Beuitfull people hear in ballymun I’m hear 56 years rared my 4 children and they all done well so if yu don’t mind stop running it down there’s good and bad every were and as I said Beuitfull people hesr. So and the flats were Beuitfull private and my kuds loved them rip any one that lost a live one hear. As there’s a lot off history hesr and sadness. People off ballymun are the salt off the earth gid bless them
Clearly no schools or education in Ballymun by your comment 😂 Christ, nearly had an aneurysm trying to translate what you typed.
Man chill
Is that true about the psych hospital just dumping people there?? Don’t laugh, I’m too lazy to google and English.
that you're thinking about it must mean it's true lol
@@threadschanged4252 if a psych ward forces it’s patients into a deprived housing when no one is around to see it..
Namaste 🙏