The Ballymun Flats referred to a number of flats—including the seven Ballymun tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly in the 1960s, there...
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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...
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up in the Ballymun Flats, and ran for local election in the area in 2014. She was first elected in the 2019 local elections, for the Ballymun-Finglas local...
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and guitar, it describes a heroin-addicted couple living in Dublin's Ballymun flats; the towers have since become associated with the song. Though a lot...
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Park Hill, Sheffield (redirect from Park Hill Flats)
Gdansk, Poland Karl-Marx-Hof, Vienna, Austria Spinaceto, Rome, Italy Ballymun Flats, Dublin, Ireland Golden Lane Estate competition entry by Alison and...
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Tower block (redirect from Blocks of flats)
Dublin. Suburban flat complexes were built exclusively on the northside of the city in Ballymun, Coolock and Kilbarrack. These flats were badly affected...
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notable and visible example of local authority accommodation is the Ballymun Flats near Dublin Airport. Estates of houses have been built around the country...
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New York City Broadwater Farm, London, England Red Road Flats, Glasgow, Scotland Ballymun Flats, Dublin, Ireland Towers in the park "Cabrini Row houses"...
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Chalkhill Estate (1966–1970) in North London, England (demolished) Ballymun Flats (1966–1969) in Dublin, Ireland (demolished) Redfern Estate "Three Sisters"...
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against the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The Thomas Clarke Tower block of flats in Ballymun Flats was named after him. The top floor was used as a short-stay hotel...
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Ballymun Flats, in Dublin, Ireland Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco, in Mexico City, Mexico Bijlmermeer, in Amsterdam, Netherlands Red Road Flats,...
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Queens Starrett City, Brooklyn Broadwater Farm, London Ballymun Flats, Dublin Red Road Flats, Glasgow Notes "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles...
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large council estates in the UK Cabrini–Green Pruitt-Igoe Red Road Flats Ballymun Flats Barling, Kurt (30 September 2005). "20 Years On". BBC News. Retrieved...
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couple was the basis for "Running to Stand Still", which Bono set in the Ballymun Flats residential towers in Dublin near which he was raised. The buildings...
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Chicago, Illinois St. James Town, in Toronto, Canada Ballymun Flats, in Dublin, Ireland Red Road (flats), in Glasgow, United Kingdom Hulme Crescents, in Manchester...
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name MacDonagh on 10 April 1966 in commemoration of Thomas MacDonagh. Ballymun Flats, Thomas MacDonagh tower (1966–2005) was the second tower to go up in...
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now has very extensive commercial, transport and leisure facilities. Ballymun Flats, one of the State's few high-rise housing schemes, was largely demolished...
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(215 ft), demolished 2004 Boyne Obelisk, 53 m (174 ft), destroyed 1923 Ballymun Flats, 42 m (136 ft), demolished 2004-2015 Nelson's Pillar Monument, 41 m...
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Amaptocare (category Ballymun)
work, in the form of a participative sponsored tree-planting project in Ballymun on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Proposed by German conceptual artist...
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on Baggot Street, Dublin, A Walk Among Stone (1988) at Ballymun Flats (the sculpture and flats both since demolished), and Sky Train (2002) at Sculpture...
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their network. 1963: Marlin cables part Ballymun 1968: RTÉ with its subsidiary RTÉ Relays cables the Ballymun Flats. 1970s: Phoenix and Marlin merge to form...
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He set up a trust to help struggling young people. He first worked in Ballymun and the North Inner City during the 1970s when he found young homeless...
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town via a run-in with a belligerent drug dealer named Martin living in Ballymun, a hasty exit from the top deck of a bus, a long trudge down the median...
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2019. "Planning application: Metro Hotel, Dublin Airport, Santry Cross, Ballymun Road, Dublin 9". Dublin City Council. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 12 December...
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tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They...
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Dolphin's Barn (section Dolphin House flats)
group of brutalist flats called Dolphin House are located in Dolphin's Barn. They were constructed in 1957 and comprise 392 flats. It is Dublin’s largest...
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place between the 1960s and the 1980s across Dublin's Northside - i.e. Ballymun including Poppintree, Kilmore, Coolock, Edenmore, Kilbarrack and Donaghmede...
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1990s. In the late 1990s, the flats were demolished and the area underwent gentrification. Many residents of the flats were housed nearby whilst others...
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leader Sean Garland who was wounded in an INLA attack near his home in the Ballymun area of Dublin (Garland was wounded six times but survived the attack)...
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on 9 July 1949. Ballsbridge is serviced by the following bus routes: 4 Ballymun to Monkstown 7 Cherrywood to Dublin 7a Loughlinstown to Dublin 18 Palmerstown...
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