Tallaght in 1992

Documentary.
produced and directed by Jean Tansey.
a Transitions Production. phone 01 - 2981212 (phone number might not work nowadays)
I went to Old Bawn Community School, Tallaght and in 2008 the library were throwing out all their old VHS tapes so I asked to save some of them.
on the back of the vhs: The 27 minute video Tallaght Growing Up is based on the contributions and experiences of the local people of Tallaght. With the Workbook Tallaght Growing Up it provides an educational resource for schools, youth groups, community organisations and others involved in education and development in Tallaght. It should also be of interest to other communities with similar or contrasting experiences. The resource park is intended to inform local residents and others about Tallaght, it's history and development, whilst also stimulating discussion on a range of contemporary issues. It builds on the rich and varied experience of people living in Tallaght and provides a framework within which to consider the current status of Tallaght and hopes and plans for its future development.

[@patrickward8543]

We lived in Killinarden in the Eighties. Moved there from Rialto and we were moved in to the estate when Killinarden was mostly still a work in project. I remember it being quite eerie, as it was a cold winter that year and our house in Donomore Crescent was surrounded by the shells of homes still under construction. The road didn't even have working streetlights. Long nights, deep snow (no central heating then!)and the ghosts of houses yet-to-be made a lasting impression on my then 10 year old self. In hindsight, it wasn't a bad place to grow up and some of the people then had aspiration. There were a lot of working families living there, most of whom dragged themselves out of social housing to go and buy their own homes out of the area in places like Kilnamanagh etc. Even then though, you could see the seeds of the troubles with drugs and violence being sown and it went to the dogs not long after we moved out circa 1986. RIP Tallaght of old. I went back a few years ago for a trip down memory lane and the place was almost unrecognisable, like the rest of Dublin. I wasn't at all surprised to find that a lot of my peers and friends of old in the Crescent had died young, from substance abuse and related causes.

[@spikeycat81]

The start of this is my childhood in a nut shell. Brilliantly. Great seeing Ms O'Hara too

[@speakertreatz]

Our first house was in Springfield, moved from Crumlin in 1973. At that time the estate wasn't finished, my parents had their name down for a house there, and when we moved the streets didn't even have names, just codes. My early memories are of our road just abruptly ending with a construction dump. Only one bus running through it in the afternoon, miss it and you were fucked. By the time we left in 1978 things had gotten better. According to my Mother when they were buying the house in Springfield they were promised both the Hospital and The Square were 'soon to open'

[@robertharrison7654]

I lived on maple wood drive in Springfield tallaght early 1980’s

[@tyleroneil837]

Where's Dominic's shopping centre 😂😂

[@anfear9764]

19:11 Our Price. Wow. I used to smash the bargain bin in there and bought my first ever CD in that shop. EMF unbelievable. 79P it was. Great memories 👍🏻

[@speakertreatz]

Great bargain! Every Thursday night I'd be up there scouting those bargain bins, always came away with good stuff for £1/£2. I was also at Our Price for Boyzone's first public appearance, it was an in-store promotion in 1994 for their first single, Workin My Way Back To You. Five dudes, Louis Walsh and a huge bouncer, all crammed in behind the counter. I was covering the event for the local newspaper The Echo. But I hammered that shop for bargains too, spent hours in there.

[@anfear9764]

@@speakertreatz love it 🤟

[@wittywoo9559]

Great one !!

[@JamesPosseHunt]

Live in Killinarden, was born in 2000. This is mad interesting to watch, and gives some context to stories one does hear from older people

[@hilltopviewer8204]

I thought the camera was gonna go through the wall!!! Just kidding! That was a nice documentary,very informative and the people are great.I wonder are they looking back at themselves now which is nice,the sense of community even if it is kept apart slightly with the current pandemic of covid-19 as of Saturday 24th October 2020.Tallaght has come on in leaps and bounds.The only thing I feel is lacking is,as years go by people will go online to buy clothes shopping and the like as we can see already,The Square was a haven when it first opened for Tallaght,but as the years go by,I sometimes think that people's needs change for different reasons,and newer facilities will be needed. I still think that people will always want to go higher in what they want.

[@kennethhegarty3920]

I worked on the building of that community centre its great to see it's working 💪 lots of of love ❤ Kenneth

[@michaelbaldwin4576]

So I lived in Tallaght from the early 70s to 92.People talked about the planning or the lack of it .Id like to know who gave the building contractors the McInernys and Mc Cones the go a head. Who owned the the land ? The people of Tallaght are great but we were pawns.

[@hilltopviewer8204]

Did you not know....It was Bull who owned the land.The Bull McCabe!

[@t2dghealthyresearch952]

the square and social offices are modern buildings of freemaonry...we are still neglected

[@kevinmorley4924]

Fascinating. My God, how 30 something years can make such a difference. Many things about this period I miss.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Young people talking like older people about schools, hospitals, and housing, I trust they fine young people got their wishes and things turned out much better for them all others in their area. Phil Lynott would have been very proud of those young Irish people

[@jozzerful2]

listening to, those three kids speaking, you can tell they have been coached by their teachers, or someone that had another agendas , because that's not the mindset in general of a child of that age, they just play with the playground they don't even think about the hospital. Using the child to get the hospital ? we've got the hospital now, and many more things in Tallaght , but a lot of people are not aware of it , and a lot of them just don't use them, I live in Tallaght myself, and i think compared to a lot of other places it's a good place to live there's clubs left right and centre, So nobody will , be going without in anyway, there is boxing , Taekwondo , running , football , GAA and all of its spots and the amenities , for all of the named Sports and more there are very good facilities and people that know what they're doing, so it's just a matter of getting the kids up and getting them into the clubs .

[@cosdrag8807]

True that

[@rayvaughan3197]

Theyre not "children" .... theyre teenagers from Jobstown with an average age of 17....dont let the small lads appearance fool you, his name is Stuart Hyland,he'll have been atleast 17 in 92, more than likely 5th year if not 6th, the other 2 lads Darren Kenny & David Smith same class as him, they'd long out grown playgrounds and been 'coached' with an opinion, growing up at that age in our area we formed and expressed our own opinions and were well aware of what our area was lacking and where things had failed...... it helps to know abit about what you talk about before assuming you know it all!

[@earthsgard]

@@rayvaughan3197 well said pal... good man.

[@rcb0683]

@@rayvaughan3197 well said. Coached my arse.

[@Maradona-wr8su]

Were talking about the 80s when there was nothing. There about 17. It was too late for them. Your talking about today ye bleeding thick ye

[@plasticbucket]

Ground level Ballymun

[@nickbrennan3389]

Dublin 1992...the rave E scene just starting to kick in !

[@klipk7296]

I was born in 96, this feels crazy to watch

[@nigefal]

In 30's years time people will be saying you lived through covid19 a plague!

[@jackd4227]

@@nigefal but Covid 19 isnt a plauge

[@leedaniels2378]

I grew up here

[@jozzerful2]

At 26:44 in the video, my house is facing on to that Greenfield in fact when the camera pans back there is all new houses there now, this is all old footage and back in the 80s when all those houses would have been given to people they would have all been people from ballymun, Crumlin and various places like that it was a big melting pot of different areas so to speak , but today it's a Bee Hive of activities and anybody, who is bitching about anything, is just looking for something to complain about because, I hate to say it, but there is something for everybody, if you go looking. As mentioned in the video, there is the hospital and the luas goes right to the square, or sagat and CityWest, there is the the Civic Theatre does the cinemas, loads of stuff at the start people could complain about things, but now there is a bowling alley, and playgrounds being built everywhere, football fields everywhere so, ??

[@cosdrag8807]

At 26:44 it's a blank screen

[@betterdaysarecoming6616]

God I miss those days born in 87 just not the same anymore

[@waitwhatrly]

hop over the wall into john of gods at the end with the tar on the wall. thanks Tallaght. for nothing, never went back. i used to say i loved it too.

[@leezerb0382]

In the likes of jobstown there is amazing people who are smart and nice and it's the people who cause trouble who give the area a bad name and after how many years they haven't tried helping the area they need to help the youth because it's only gonna get worse

[@premierleague_itk2626]

Shut up jobs town is a kip full of degenerate low life's no life's.jobless bums

[@Comewithmeifuwant2live]

There's nice people in every area and bad in good areas... but on the whole Tallaght is an absolute dump, and still is today. Instead of trying to fix the plight of the people already living there what happens? They dump in a load of foreigners making things worse. Full of criminals and druggies and violence. My parents had the sense and the opportunity to move out of it in 1986. Because of it we suffered financially but it was the best decision they ever made. I had to move back there in 2012 and thanks be to JAYSUS I'm out of it again! Kip! Lidl loot kzbin.info/www/bejne/roTMYqlphKmseKc

[@taylordfghfh]

its so bad now honestly. abusive angry messed up parents are ruining kids and teenagers brains

[@haneye3770]

Yup d killinarden

[@niallsheen470]

Tallaghtforia now!!!

[@jacquelinerafferty1925]

Haha on hair dyes yeah man scarlet 4 Yas u know it's 2022bhahab

[@liloofer7376]

2019 you can't leave your house without getting stabbed dialling up the internet must be bad

[@ellamcellone8466]

The good times

[@andrewlyng4855]

Me bollox

[@Mike-up6hw]

The blacks have really improved the area it's now ready to boom

[@markc3258]

He said sarcastically 😂

[@plasticbucket]

​@@markc3258A polite name for them.

[@wittywoo9559]

Now they have it all & more!!

[@leightrzcinski9484]

What a load of bollix lots of schools the square etc how old r these people?

[@blingblingpanda9998]

Shut up u neek

[@jasonwade2277]

@@seanquinn5483 what is up with you pal, I moved from rattling flats crumlin, cashel cashel road and captain's road beside the premier dairies, and the guy talking in the video with the white jacket John Reid Tallaght community workshop, I learned how to do welding and metal work , and I got a job thanks to that guy, and that was a big deal in the 80s what I was trying to say in my comment was by the Mid 90s, there was a lot to do,

[@jaroslavsolar699]

This is jobstown part 2

[@scottdonaldson1973]

Spent an afternoon in the shopping center in the 90's , it was grim .

[@acb7074]

You have a grim consciousness then.

[@beary-os1yj]

19:43 ❤❤

[@janicepierce6670]

2:54 that woman is strikingly good looking

[@Billie-p2t]

There are several women in the video……….or are you being sarcastic?

[@movinon1242]

The gave hundreds, maybe thousands of families each £5,000 to move to that estate; expressly to help them make up for the lack of services in the area at that time. Yet not even a few of those residents came together and invested portions of those grants. They could have spent less than £5,000 on a used van to shuttle folks back and forth to the shops 2-3 miles away. Instead, they wait until someone from outside would come in, take the risk, and reap the rewards. 10-20 of them could have come together to invest £2-3000 each to open and stock a small grocery store. There would have been jobs, everything they needed. All it required was effort and initiative. But their insistence that the government must do the providing. This is something you see around the developed world with communities of generationally entitled communities conditioned to being dependent subjects, rather than ambitious citizens. I bet, however, that there were pubs open on day one, and £4,800 of those £5,000 pounds went to the publicans. This encapsulates much of Ireland's inability to develop much economically over the centuries. And I say that as a fellow Thadg, genetically-speaking.

[@ceilesmammy]

my how times have changed now

[@spacetweek]

Yea they get a lot more than £11 a week now

[@premierleague_itk2626]

The great 90s

[@rossmorebaz]

Go Wan Yiz Mad Yokes .. Balrothery Estate In the House !

[@popeye4052]

Better get money no way are they boxers

[@rayvaughan3197]

shay brennan Funny you say that, the blonde lad on the punch bag was Terry Carlyle an all ireland champion, Sacred Heart BC turned out a few all ireland winners in its time.

[@t2dghealthyresearch952]

crack epidemic being allowed strive...

[@chrisclark1761]

Anyone know where that road at @21:07 is ?

[@mullo8734]

I.t tallaght is at 21.44, before this looks like tymon cresent, old bawn.

[@chrisclark1761]

@@mullo8734 I don't think it's Tymon Crescent.

[@MeMe-dw1sm]

Glenview

[@Thedar561]

Seskin view at ahernes parallel to the old Bawn rd

[@popeye4052]

Scary poor kids

[@nigefal]

This video is not only the importance of planning a settlement, but also the importance of education.