The Ballymun Trilogy is a series of three plays about the process of change in Ballymun, written by Dermot Bolger and staged by the Axis Art Centre located close to the original site of McDonagh Tower.

Tower in Ballymun as of April 2007

* Thomas Clarke Tower in Ballymun was named after him.

Eamonn Ceannt Tower in Ballymun, which was demolished in 2005, was also named after him.

Thomas MacDonagh Tower in Ballymun, Dublin, which was built in the 1960s and demolished in June 2005, was named after him, as was the train station ( MacDonagh Station ) and shopping centre ( MacDonagh Junction ) in Kilkenny ( as MacDonagh had taught in St Kierans College, Kilkenny City during the early years of his career ).

Image: Clarke tower demolition. jpg | Demolition of Clarke Tower in Ballymun, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

In a special report on Nuacht TG4 news on 13 January 2009, it was confirmed that a group in Ballymun, in conjunction with the local branch of Glór na Gael have received planning permission to build 38 homes for people who want to live in an Irish-speaking community in the heart of the city.

Suburban flat complexes were built exclusively on the northside of the city in Ballymun, Coolock and Kilbarrack.

Ballymun () is an area on Dublin's Northside close to Dublin Airport, Ireland.

Indeed, much of the present day central Ballymun lies on lands once in the northern reaches of the Albert Agricultural College estate, the forerunner of the present-day Dublin City University ( D. C. U. ).

A documentary film entitled Ballymun Lullaby was released in February 2011 and includes scenes detailing the regeneration of Ballymun as well as its impact on the culture of its populace.

As part of the New Ballymun, a major tree-planting project called Amaptocare has been run, with more than 600 people sponsoring around 700 trees, and providing inscription texts which are engraved on plaques near the trees.

The eight storey flats are currently going under demolition, Balbutcher Lane remains the only flats in Ballymun to have windows on the front balconys and railings around the car park.

Dublin City University ( abbreviated as DCU ) () is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland.

Over the years DCU has expanded its land bank in the area, purchasing the St. Clare's grounds, on the western side of Ballymun Road, where sports facilities were developed, but also farmland to the south down to Griffith Ave.

The rider is modelled on a teenage girl native of Ballymun.

It was filmed solely on location in Spain and six weeks in Ballymun, Cork, Ireland and also in Macroom.

In the 1960s the economy greatly expanded, under the leadership of Seán Lemass, many rehousing schemes ( including Ballymun ) were started to clear the Dublin tenements ; the Industrial Development Authority refocused on high technology and foreign direct investment was encouraged.

Santry () is a suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Coolock, Glasnevin and Ballymun.

It is infamous for the Ballymun flats, which became a symbol of poverty, drugs, alienation from the state and social problems in Ireland from the 1970s.

The creation of Ballymun Regeneration Limited as a limited company controlled by Dublin City Council initiated the beginning of the demolition of the Ballymun flats and the emergence of a " new town " of Ballymun.

Despite the negative perceptions of many non-residents of Ballymun, there existed, and exists today, a strong sense of pride and community in the area, as evidenced by the fact that many former residents of the flats have accepted new social housing in the district.

It is located beside Joseph Plunkett tower, the only remaining tower in Ballymun, which is also the only tower to have ever had the same features as the Balbutcher Lane flats.

It is believed that the Ballymun Shopping Centre, which is located next to where the Balcurris flats stood, is to be rebuilt and could be extended onto the now empty area, also the proposed Dublin Metro North is due to travel through Balcurris.

Ballymun flats feature in M. J. Hyland's Booker-shortlisted novel Carry Me Down ( 2006 ), symbolising John's family's descent into poverty.

Today Ballymun has a wide range of amenities, from green spaces and the public Silloge Golf Course to a Tesco-anchored but very run-down shopping centre, a range of other shops and pubs and a hotel, to a public sector office development, with many branches of the city government ( including a Motor Tax and Driver Licence office ) and the Health Service and a very modern public leisure centre.

For instance, in the early days of Dublin City University, then called NIHE, Dublin, this institution was sometimes referred to as being in Ballymun ( part of the " Ballymun Project "), or sometimes in Whitehall, whilst today it is referred to and has a postal address in Glasnevin even though it has not changed location.

The Mun was Lynn's account of another side of Ballymun, of which she has fond memories.

Although the public image of Ballymun has changed somewhat since the beginning of the Ballymun regeneration project in 1997, continuing social problems in Ballymun ensure it remains a remarkably different world to, for example, neighbouring Glasnevin.

The club has a clubhouse and its home pitch, Arás Proinsias Mác Gafraidh, just off the Ballymun ( junction 4 ) exit of the M50.

Ballymun also has a full size astroturf pitch.

, six of the seven towers ( Pearse, Ceannt, Macdermott McDonagh, Connolly, and Clarke ) as well as three eight-storey blocks and seven four-storey blocks have been demolished by DSM, with the residents generally rehoused in new " state of the art " housing in Ballymun.

The causes of these social problems, and the subsequent discrimination faced by many people with Ballymun addresses when seeking employment outside the suburb, have been disputed, but Ballymun generally paralleled the experience of many working-class people in the 1960 and 1970s when placed in high-rise locations.

It is bordered to the north by Finglas, northeast by Ballymun, Whitehall to the east, Phibsboro and Drumcondra to the south and Cabra to the west.

Also, the Swords area ( separated from the city limits by the green belt and aviation safety zone around Dublin Airport ) is considered a Northside area because of, perhaps, its establishment as a commuter suburb for Dublin's new middle class and also because a substantial number of residents would be of a traditional working-class / lower middle class Northside background i. e. from areas such as Coolock, Santry or Ballymun.

Ballymun is served by a number of Dublin Bus routes.

The " new Ballymun " is due to be completed by 2013.

A film of the leisure centre by filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, LEISURE CENTRE, was made in 2007 and starred hundreds of Ballymun residents.

He is also commemorated in the names of two hurling clubs ( one in Galway, and one in Wexford ), and by Unidare RFC in Ballymun and their " Liam Mellows Perpetual Cup ".

One of the highlights of his achievements at underage level was getting the triple with Ballymun Kickhams U-21 team by winning the Dublin Championship, the North League and then overall league winners in the same season.

For local elections, it is part of the Ballymun – Finglas local electoral area of Dublin City Council.

The feud resulted in the attempted assassination of Official IRA leader Sean Garland who was wounded in an IRSP attack near his home in the Ballymun area of Dublin ( Garland was wounded six times but survived the attack ).

Flats in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland

In Dublin, the Ballymun Flats were built between 1966 and 1969 consisting of seven 15-storey towers, nineteen 8 storey blocks and ten 4 storey blocks.

* Ballymun Flats, in Dublin, Ireland

* Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland

Additional junctions along the motorway serve other suburbs of Dublin such as Ballymun, Tallaght, Naas, Dundrum, Sandyford and Cherrywood.

Dublin City University, Dublin's newest university, is located between Glasnevin, Whitehall and Ballymun.

Journey time from Ballymun to the airport is estimated be around three minutes, and to Dublin city centre around twenty-five minutes.

By February 1969, when the National Building Agency's contract for Ballymun ceased and control of Ballymun was handed to Dublin Corporation ( Dublin County Council didn't want it ), there was a total of 3, 021 dwellings in the new Ballymun, all of which was social housing under the control of the Irish state through Dublin Corporation ( the Corpo ).