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Ballymun (Irish: Baile Munna) is an outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland, at the northern edge of the Northside, the green-field development of which began in the 1960s to accommodate a housing crisis in inner city areas of Dublin.
Ross McDonnell explains how his new film 'Remember Me, My Ghost' came out of his experience photographing Ireland's Ballymun housing projects.
Jul 23, 2016 · People. Ballymun at 50: From high hopes to sink estate. Dublin’s best-known tower blocks were to be a bright new world. What went wrong? Ballymun: on the estate in 1996; the last high-rise was...
The Ballymun Flats referred to a number of flats—including the seven Ballymun tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly [3] in the 1960s, there were 36 blocks in total, consisting of 7 fifteen-storey, 19 eight-storey, and 10 four-storey blocks.
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Jul 23, 2016 · Ballymun was built in a hurry, an emergency response to a housing crisis precipitated by a pair of terrible events in the summer of 1963. Two elderly residents of Bolton Street, in the middle of...
Mar 25, 2018 · AS PEOPLE FLED tenement houses in Dublin city centre in their droves in the 1960s, Ballymun stepped into the breach to become the country’s first high-rise housing suburb. Grand plans to solve a...
