http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 17 May 2012 08:39:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15324 Ben Thu, 10 May 2007 07:32:04 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15324 me name's conor. me name’s conor.

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15317 Hugh Green Thu, 10 May 2007 06:51:53 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15317 This is an very interesting post, but I'm a bit confused on the Conor Cruise O'Brien thing. Is Conor Cruise O'Brien's name really Ben, or is your name Conor Cruise O'Brien? This is an very interesting post, but I’m a bit confused on the Conor Cruise O’Brien thing. Is Conor Cruise O’Brien’s name really Ben, or is your name Conor Cruise O’Brien?

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15256 Ben Thu, 10 May 2007 00:10:38 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15256 Hi Paul, thanks very much for your comment. I'm afraid this is the first article I've written on Edenmore, and like yourself, I don't know of any other. The reason why I've written it is precisely because there isn't anything out there. The point I'm making is that our stories don't seem to hold relevance to Irish historians - in much the same way as our lives in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, etc did not seem to hold much relevance to the Dáil and its inhabitants. It's something I'm going to come back to again, but while the dump holds childhood memories for me - building bicycles from the scrapped ones for example - now that memory holds a lot of anger for me, because St, Malachy's was built right next to the dump, and what type of government builds a primary school next to a working dump? but yeah, it shaped me, for good and bad, Edenmore. Hi Paul, thanks very much for your comment. I’m afraid this is the first article I’ve written on Edenmore, and like yourself, I don’t know of any other. The reason why I’ve written it is precisely because there isn’t anything out there. The point I’m making is that our stories don’t seem to hold relevance to Irish historians - in much the same way as our lives in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, etc did not seem to hold much relevance to the Dáil and its inhabitants. It’s something I’m going to come back to again, but while the dump holds childhood memories for me - building bicycles from the scrapped ones for example - now that memory holds a lot of anger for me, because St, Malachy’s was built right next to the dump, and what type of government builds a primary school next to a working dump?
but yeah, it shaped me, for good and bad, Edenmore.

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15254 Paul Wed, 09 May 2007 23:57:37 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/09/unfamiliarites/#comment-15254 Ben (or Conor) I too was born in Edenmore in the late 60's in the house my parents moved too from their overcrowded tenement in Seville Place. I search high and low for articles on Edenmore because it has left such a deep and lasting imprint on who I am. It is hard to come by them. It makes it even harder when I don’t have access to libraries or such like since I now live in Australia. Thank you for your article, I had forgotten about the dump (for which I remember going too with my mum more than is healthy to do so). Yes the seagulls where a pain. I would love to see anything else you have written about the 'More or point me in a direction that will open up my memories even more. Regards Paul Ben (or Conor)
I too was born in Edenmore in the late 60’s in the house my parents moved too from their overcrowded tenement in Seville Place. I search high and low for articles on Edenmore because it has left such a deep and lasting imprint on who I am. It is hard to come by them. It makes it even harder when I don’t have access to libraries or such like since I now live in Australia. Thank you for your article, I had forgotten about the dump (for which I remember going too with my mum more than is healthy to do so). Yes the seagulls where a pain. I would love to see anything else you have written about the ‘More or point me in a direction that will open up my memories even more.
Regards Paul

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